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SPEAKER_03: and this is Encyclopedia Wamanica. We're talking about a lot of incredible women this month, but today's dreamer is set apart from the rest. She started forging the legacy she's known for at the age of 78. Give it up for American folk artist, Anna Mary Moses, better known to the world as Grandma Moses. Grandma Moses was born Anna Mary Robertson in 1860 in Greenwich, New York. She had very little formal schooling and by the age of 12, she left home to work as a hired hand on a neighboring farm. Anna Mary got married to Thomas Moses in 1887. They had 10 children together, but only five survived past infancy. The family soon moved together to a farm in Eagle Bridge, New York, where Anna Mary would live for the rest of her life. When Anna Mary was wallpapering the living room, she ran out of the patterned paper she needed, leaving the room's fireplace cover bare. Creative and tenacious as she was, Anna Mary came up with a unique solution. She covered the board with white paper and painted a landscape on it. This became fireboard, a piece that now hangs in the Bennington Museum in Vermont. Anna Mary spent her days working on the farm, taking care of her children, and supporting her family by selling homemade food. Though she didn't like knitting and sewing that much, she did enjoy making needlework pictures and quilts depicting farm life. But at 78, her arthritis made embroidery too painful, so friends suggested that painting might be easier. That's when her artistic career really began.
SPEAKER_06: Well, anybody can paint that wants to paint. Can they? Oh, sure. Sure, anybody can paint.
SPEAKER_03: Anna Mary liked to focus on nostalgic imagery in her art, like holiday celebrations, snowstorms, landscapes, and barn dances. She painted these pieces without any signs of industrialization, leaving out things like telephone poles and tractors. In 1939, an engineer and art collector named Lewis Calder spotted Anna Mary's paintings hanging in a drugstore window. She had been mostly giving away her art, but Calder drove to her farm and bought all 15 paintings that she had left. Later that year, three of those paintings ended up in a Museum of Modern Art exhibit in New York called Contemporary Unknown Painters. Anna Mary had her first solo exhibit in 1940, titled What a Farm Wife Painted. Though Anna Mary's paintings didn't follow the typical rules of perspective or proportion, critics loved her wistful depiction of the land and farm life. She gained the nickname Grandma Moses from a reviewer at New York's Herald Tribune.
SPEAKER_07: They say it's quite soothing to lose oneself in a piece of artwork.
SPEAKER_06: It is, it's resting, just as resting is sleeping. Well, Grandma Moses, you certainly are to sleep when you paint your pictures. There are many things that you do that interest me.
SPEAKER_03: Anna Mary once said, "'I'll get an inspiration and start painting. Then I'll forget everything, everything except how things used to be and how to paint it, so people will know how we used to live.'" She became exceptionally popular, continuing to exhibit her work internationally until well into her 90s.
SPEAKER_07: Grandma Moses, did you know that the Museum of Modern Art in Paris just bought one of your paintings to hang there? It's one of the most wonderful museums in the world, I believe. I didn't know it. I know there's one in the White House.
SPEAKER_03: In 1960, New York Governor Nelson Rockefeller declared her 100th birthday Grandma Moses Day. She wrote an acclaimed autobiography and won numerous awards, including two honorary doctoral degrees. Anna Mary continued to paint until just a few months before her death in a medical center on December 13th, 1961. She was 101 years old. Today, Grandma Moses is known as one of the most famous American folk painters. You can find her work in many different museums, as well as greeting cards, stamps, and other merchandise. Her painting, called, Sugaring Off, which depicts a snowy landscape dotted with detailed figures working and playing, sold for $1.2 million in 2006. Tune in tomorrow for inspiration from another impressive dreamer. This month of Encyclopedia Wamanica is brought to you by Casper. Casper's mattresses and other products allow dreamers to turn today's ideas into tomorrow's reality. Shout out to my favorite sister, Liz Kaplan, the brain behind this incredible collection of women. Talk to you tomorrow.
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