The country life of Grandma Moses

It’s Farm Friend Friday and I am enjoying all the blogs with pictures of animals, gardens and anything Farm related. My post is about an artist that show’s her love of the country life she lived in Grandma Moses. Years ago in our San Diego art museum we had an exhibit of Grandma Moses and her wonderful paintings and embroideries. I could hardly wait to see all her simple primitive paintings! There were hundreds of paintings that depicted her early rural life.I have never loved an exhibit more.I have been to many art museums and seen Rembrandt's and the old masters but this simple primitive painter caught a slice of a world that was truly heartwarming.

I have loved the simplicity of this wonderful folk artist who began painting at 76 after arthritis stopped her from her hobby of wool embroidery.Grandma Moses was born in 1876 and lived to be 101.



 Anna Mary Robertson or Grandma Moses is the best known primitive painter with her wonderful scenes of farm life and the memories of her childhood. There is a little bit of Grandma Moses in us all if you think about it.Grandma Moses vision of country life is so enduring and sweet. Did you know she was friends with Norman Rockwell?I look at all the Farm blogs and think if you were able to try to depict your Country Life I wonder if you could be a little bit of Grandma Moses.Depicting our way of Life in art is something all of us can do simply with a little bit of  effort using whatever we enjoy to work with.I like rug hooking and quilting but even if I am not good at painting
I draw hope from a simple painter who just put her hand to the brush and created.

   Grandma Moses was put on a million things in the 1950's
This is a can I found at a thrift store.



 This is a part of a copy I have
of a Grandma Moses painting. There was too much
of a glare when taking a photo but it gives you an idea of
her paintings.