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• Grandma Moses
  Grandma Moses

  noun

  Moses, Anna Mary Robertson.
• Moses, Grandma
  Moses, Grandma

  A twentieth-century American artist who painted scenes of farm life; her style, which seems childlike, is a noted example of primitivism. She began to paint in her late seventies, when she was too old for farm work.

Grandma Moses

American  

noun

1. Moses, Anna Mary Robertson.

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Grandma Moses British  

noun

1. the nickname of (Anna Mary Robertson) Moses

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Moses, Grandma Cultural  

1. A twentieth-century American artist who painted scenes of farm life; her style, which seems childlike, is a noted example of primitivism. She began to paint in her late seventies, when she was too old for farm work.

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Example Sentences

This is not the New England inscribed in popular memory, from the writings of the American Transcendentalists to the paintings of Grandma Moses or Norman Rockwell.

From Washington Post • Mar. 9, 2017

I think most people believed that for quite a few years, and they accepted it, and made her into some kind of goddess, like Grandma Moses.

From Slate • Mar. 7, 2016

He worked in a fairly traditional folk style — sort of an updated version of Grandma Moses — but also extended and refreshed it with urgent subject matter, visceral spatial twists and a sophisticated palette.

From New York Times • Sep. 4, 2014

As we write in Power Years: Grandma Moses didn’t start painting until she was almost 80.

From Time • Sep. 4, 2013

I pictured the snowflaky, Grandma Moses villages, the reaches of swampland rattling with dried cattails, the ponds where frog and hornpout dreamed in a sheath of ice, and the shivering woods.

From "The Bell Jar" by Sylvia Plath