Grandma Moses: A Good Day's Work

Grandma Moses: A Good Day's Work repositions Anna Mary Robertson Grandma Moses (1860–1961) as a multidimensional force in American art, whose beloved painted recollections of rural life earned her a distinctive place in the post-World War II cultural imagination. The exhibition reveals how Moses' art fused creativity, labor, and memories from a century-long life. Moses spent the majority of her life in rural New York and Virginia working as a housekeeper, farmer, and mother, occasionally painting or embroidering in her spare time. She was 80 years old in 1940 when she stepped tentatively into…