At my age, I hesitate to take on challenges! Isn’t there something you can easily start?
I will answer these questions.
Well then~ You should draw a picture! There is someone who started painting older than us.🎶
It’s never too late to learn. There are surprisingly many late-blooming geniuses (late-blooming successes) if you study history.
Even if you’re in your 30s, 40s, or even older, if you have the courage to take the first step to start something new, it’s entirely possible to make a name for yourself as a great man.
Grandma started painting at age 75, Grandma Moses is America’s national painter
Do you know the painter Grandma Moses, who started painting in her 70s and continued to draw until she was 100 years old?
Anna Mary Robertson Moses, nicknamed Grandma Moses, was a self-taught American painter.
Anna Moses, who is said to be 75 or 78 years old, started painting in earnest.
She began painting oil paintings as part of her rehabilitation after her hands became unable to move due to rheumatoid arthritis.
She was affectionately known as Grandma Moses (her Grandma Moses) and produced some 1600 of her works by the time she died at the age of 101.
This article summarizes the success story of Grandma Moses, who started painting at an early age.
- Who is Grandma Moses?
Grandma Moses first solo exhibition
Grandma Moses Painting features
Who is Grandma Moses?
Anna Mary Robertson Moses (September 7, 1860 – December 13, 1961) was an American painter.
Grandma Moses never studied painting. As a farmer’s housewife she lived surrounded by nature.
Grandma Moses, who spent most of her life as a farmer in rural America, started working on her embroidery paintings at the age of 72 at the encouragement of her second daughter. She gave her work to her friends and family.
However, as her rheumatism worsened, it became difficult for her to embroider, and at the encouragement of her sister, she began painting in earnest at the age of 75.
This was the turning point in Grandma Moses’ life.
Her Moses had her paintings for sale at the drug store along with her homemade jams and pickles. But she sold only jams and pickles every day…
In 1978, when her Moses was 78, she “discovered” and purchased her work in her local Hoojik Falls drugstore by New York collector Louis J. Kaldor.
She made her debut in the art world the following year, when three of her works were exhibited in the limited exhibition “Unknown American Artists of Our Time” in the Members Room of the Museum of Modern Art, New York. increase.
Grandma Moses first solo exhibition
In 1940, at the age of 80, he held his first solo exhibition in New York, “Painted by a Peasant Woman,” at Gallery St. Etienne N.Y. Media such as television, radio, and magazines conveyed Moses’ career as a painter through this solo exhibition, creating a sensation in the United States.
This solo exhibition was planned by Otto Currier (who ran an art dealer in pre-war Vienna and published a raisonné by Egon Schiele), who recognized the high artistic quality of Moses. played a role.
From there, Moses’ popularity spread at once, and he has become a person loved by many people even after his death at the age of 101.
Grandma Moses Painting features
Moses draws on the theme of the countryside that straddles New York State and Vermont and the daily lives of the people of the land.
Moses’ world is a tranquil rural landscape, with a pond fed by a river in front of him, and a horse standing by its shore.
Moses expresses what he feels and experiences from “landscapes, people, and things themselves” as a whole. Both are great in their own respects, and neither is better than the other.
“Birthplace of Grandma” drawn at the age of 98, a place related to Moses and a work that became a turning point in his life.
This table was originally given to Moses by his aunt as a flower stand.
A colorful landscape is drawn on the foot part, and you can see the attachment of Moses.
The characteristic of Moses’ paintings is that he candidly depict the places and landscapes where he was born and raised, as well as events.
The Four Seasons of Grandmother Moses: The World of Grandmother Moses through Paintings and Autobiography
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