Grandma Moses

A major reexamination of the life, art, and legacy of a self-taught American master Grandma Moses: A Good Day’s Work explores how an unlikely artist—marginalized in her time for being elderly, female, and untrained—catapulted into the American imagination in the 1940s and 1950s. Anna Mary Robertson Moses (1860–1961) 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