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Name: Grandma Moses
Variant Name: Anna Mary Robertson
Birth Date: September 7, 1860
Death Date: December 13, 1961
Place of Birth: Greenwich, New York, United States
Place of Death: Eagle Bridge, New York, United States
Nationality: American
Gender: Female
Occupations: painter

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Biography of Grandma Moses
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Anna Mary Robertson Moses (1860-1961) was probably America's best-known primitive painter. Anna Mary Robertson was born in Greenwich, N.Y., on Sept. 7, 1860, one of 10 children of a farmer. At 12 she began earning her living as a hired girl. In 1887...


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Grandma Moses (born Anna Mary Moses ( 1860-09-07 – 1961-12-13 ) was a renowned American folk artist. Unsourced If I hadn't started painting, I would have raised chickens. External links Wikipedia has an article about: Grandma Moses Grandma Moses...


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Grandma Moses Information
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Anna Mary Robertson Moses (September 7 1860 – December 13 1961), better known as "Grandma Moses" was a renowned American folk artist. She is often cited as an example of an individual successfully beginning a career in the arts at an advanced...


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Instructor (1990)
Grandma Moses.(Brief Article)
03/01/2001: 595 words, approx. 2 pages
ANNA MARY ROBERTSON MOSES (1860-1961), for most of her life, didn't think of herself as an artist. In her youth, the woman the world would come to know as Grandma Moses married Thomas Salmon Moses, worked hard on their farm, and raised...
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The Washington Post
`Grandma Moses': Salute to An Original
06/22/1990: 839 words, approx. 3 pages
Grandma Moses may have been one of the most beloved Americans of the 20th century, but you've got a serious problem on your hands if you want to put her life on the stage. She was a very late bloomer. Not until she...
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The New York Observer
Dealer With the Devil
9/11/2007: 682 words, approx. 2 pages
In his long career, the art dealer Otto Kallir introduced the works of Egon Schiele and Gustav Klimt to the United States, popularized Grandma Moses and pioneered the restitution of Nazi-looted art to Holocaust victims. Several of the finest paintings on display at an exhibit...
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The New York Observer
Apocalypt-Ow! Mel\'d5s Messy Mayan Movie
12/10/2006: 1,957 words, approx. 7 pages
In the first scene of Mel Gibson’s boring, affected, expensive, gruesomely violent and historically inaccurate curio Apocalypto, a humongous tapir (like a wild boar) charges from the jungle and attacks a peaceful tribe of hunters, who slaughter the animal and eat its testicles. For the...
 


 

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