Grandma Moses valuation
American folk painter of farm life who began to paint seriously in her seventies.
Grandma Moses (1860–1961) was born Anna Mary Robertson in Greenwich, New York, and spent her life as a farm wife, turning to painting in her seventies.
What a work by Grandma Moses is worth
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Bio
Grandma Moses (1860–1961) was born Anna Mary Robertson in Greenwich, New York, and spent her life as a farm wife, turning to painting in her seventies. In 1938 the collector Louis J. Caldor saw her pictures in a drug store window in Hoosick Falls and bought them. She was included in Contemporary Unknown American Painters at the Museum of Modern Art in 1939, and the dealer Otto Kallir gave her a solo show, What a Farm Wife Painted, at his Galerie St. Etienne in New York in 1940. Her scenes of sugaring, harvest and snow were widely reproduced on greeting cards.
What comes to market is oil and tempera paintings, usually on board. Reproductions on cards and prints are very common and have little value by comparison. A buyer will check a painting against the catalogue raisonné compiled by Otto Kallir and will look for her signature and the number and title she often recorded on a label on the back. Boards should be checked for warping and for flaking paint.
At a glance
- Born
- 7 September 1860, Greenwich
- Died
- 13 December 1961, Hoosick Falls
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