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Grandma Moses: A Good Day's Work

Grandma Moses: A Good Day's Work

Umberger, Leslie
Griffey, Randall R.
Doss, Erika

Hardcover

Folk & Outsider ArtGeneral ArtIndividual Artists

Publisher Price: $60.00

ISBN10: 0691272417
ISBN13: 9780691272412
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Published: Nov 4 2025
Pages: 272
Weight: 4.25
Height: 1.10 Width: 9.70 Depth: 12.20
Language: English

A major reexamination of the life, art, and legacy of a self-taught American master

Grandma Moses: A Good Day's Work repositions Anna Mary Robertson Grandma Moses (1860-1961) as a multidimensional force in American art, whose beloved recollections of rural life earned her a distinctive place in the cultural imagination of the postwar era. Moses was eighty years old when Otto Kallir, a New York art dealer and recent émigré from Nazi-held Austria, introduced her to the world. Grandma Moses, as the press dubbed her, quickly became a polarizing figure, beloved by the public yet dismissed by the art world for her story-time scenes and lack of formal training.

Drawing on Moses's reflection on her own life as a good day's work, the book charts Moses's creative development from her earliest artistic efforts to the emergence of her signature style, revealing a multidimensional artist who fused direct observation of nature, labor, and personal memories to tell idiosyncratic yet compelling stories. It positions Moses as a central figure in the history of twentieth-century American art, a painter whose life and work bore witness to the Civil War, two world wars, and the civil rights era.

Beautifully illustrated, Grandma Moses: A Good Day's Work captures the indomitable spirit Moses brought to her artmaking, conveying a candor and authority that still resonate today with the quest for a homespun American visual tradition.

Published in association with the Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, DC

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