Grandma Moses

noun

Moses, Anna Mary Robertson.

Grandma Moses

noun

the nickname of (Anna Mary Robertson) Moses

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.

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The paintings, which combined Grandma Moses with the textured color fields of Milton Avery cheerfully reflect this duality.

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She did periodically return to the stage, however, memorably in 1989 and 1990, when she toured the country in the title role of “Grandma Moses: An American Primitive.”

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In 1989 she toured in “Grandma Moses,” a play in which she aged from 45 to 101.

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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.

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It all sounds extremely unsubtle, and Weegee, who once called himself the “reincarnation of Leonardo da Vinci and Grandma Moses,” liked to present it that way.

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