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Moses was the mother of five and grandmother of
eleven, when, at the age of 80, she had her first one -
woman exhibition, "What a Farmwife Painted." By
the time, the farmwife died twenty-one years later, at
the age of 101, "Grandma •Moses" had become a
household word and bier colorful folk paintings hung -t
in both museums and galleries the world over. At a
II time when art circles were just coming to grips with
I the difficult demands of abstraction, and the general
public was feeling the effects of the cold war,
Grandma Moses seemed to offer something for
everyone: straightforward, recognizable images that
reaffirmed the values of America's rural heritage.
oday, over two decades
after her death, Grandma Moses is again coming
home to the America she cherished. The current
museum tour, the first of its kind since the early
1960s, celebrates some fifty-five of her best -loved
paintings: scenes of "sugaring off" for maple syrup
in late winter, planting in spring and harvesting in
autumn, that are as emotionally powerful now as
they were when Moses painted them. Also included,
for the first time in any museum show, are the
artist's preliminary drawings and source materials,
which allow the viewer to trace, step-by-step, the
genesis of the famous ''Grandma Moses style."
The exhibition has been selected by Jane Kallir, Co -Director
Galerie St. Etienne, New York