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Grandma Moses: a good day's work

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    Good day's work

Abstract

A reexamination of the life, art, and legacy of a self-taught American painter: 'Grandma Moses: A Good Day's Work' repositions Anna Mary Robertson "Grandma" Moses (1860-1961) as a multidimensional force in American art, whose recollections of rural life earned her a place in the cultural imagination of the postwar era.

Contents

Cover -- Contents -- Lenders to the Exhibition -- Director's Foreword -- Picturing an American Artist: Introduction -- "A Beautiful World": The Life and Art of Grandma Moses -- The Moses Family in Virginia: 1887-1905 -- The Artist and Her Gallerist -- Catalogue of Works -- "A Good Day's Work": Grandma Moses, Rural Life and Labor, and Modern American Art -- Grandma Moses and the American Landscape -- Age, Race, and Memory: Grandma Moses's Postwar Appeal -- Modern Farmhouse: Reframing the Past-Oriented Painting of Grandma Moses -- Bibliography -- Index -- Image Credits.

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    • Washington, DC: Smithsonian American Art Museum
    • Princeton, NJ: in association with Princeton University Press, [2025]

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    • 0691272417
    • 9780691272412

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    Published on the occasion of the exhibition held at the Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, DC, October 24, 2025-July 12, 2026, and touring to the Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, September 12, 2026-March 29, 2027.

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