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  Grandma Moses

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  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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Grandma Moses

A. Yes, though many of the surviving wild species do not look much like the dairy cows in a Grandma Moses landscape or the herds of beef cattle on a Western ranch.

From New York Times ● May 23, 2016

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

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

From Time ● Sep. 4, 2013

Grandma Moses would not have taken up painting in her late 70s.

From Scientific American ● Aug. 15, 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