Grandma Moses (eBook)

A Good Day's Work

Leslie Umberger, Randall R. Griffey (Herausgeber)

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2025
385 Seiten
Princeton University Press (Verlag)
978-0-691-27446-1 (ISBN)

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A major reexamination of the life, art, and legacy of a self-taught American masterGrandma Moses: A Good Day's Work repositions Anna Mary Robertson ';Grandma' Moses (18601961) as a multidimensional force in American art, whose beloved recollections of rural life earned her a distinctive place in the cultural imagination of the postwar era. Moses was eighty years old when Otto Kallir, a New York art dealer and recent emigre from Nazi-held Austria, introduced her to the world. ';Grandma Moses,' as the press dubbed her, quickly became a polarizing figure, beloved by the public yet dismissed by the art world for her story-time scenes and lack of formal training.Drawing on Moses's reflection on her own life as ';a good day's work,' the book charts Moses's creative development from her earliest artistic efforts to the emergence of her signature style, revealing a multidimensional artist who fused direct observation of nature, labor, and personal memories to tell idiosyncratic yet compelling stories. It positions Moses as a central figure in the history of twentieth-century American art, a painter whose life and work bore witness to the Civil War, two world wars, and the civil rights era.Beautifully illustrated, Grandma Moses: A Good Day's Work captures the indomitable spirit Moses brought to her artmaking, conveying a candor and authority that still resonate today with the quest for a homespun American visual tradition.Published in association with the Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, DCExhibition ScheduleSmithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, DCOctober 24, 2025July 12, 2026

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 4.11.2025
• Co-Autor: Erika Doss, Eleanor Jones Harvey, Stacy C. Hollander, Katherine Jentleson, Jane Kallir
• Zusatzinfo: 172 color illus.
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Kunstgeschichte / Kunststile
• Schlagworte: 20th century American women artists • American Icon • American primitive • Anna • artist celebrities • Artistic • art museum • Austrian • Autobiography • Battle • Belvidere • Bennington • Bennington museum • Benton • Caldor • centenarian • Charles • Civil War • cold war American Art • Colonial • commercial success • Cooke • Courtesy kallir • Courtesy kallir research • critic • Cultural • Denenberg, Thomas, and Robert Wolterstorff • Dudley • Eagle bridge • Eakle • Edward • Eisenhower • Etienne • family celebrations • Farmhouse • Farm wife • Folk Art • folk hero • Fort Defiance • Galerie • Galerie st • Galerie st etienne • Grandma • Grandma Moses, American Modern. Bennington, VT • Henry • Herald • Hoosick • Hoosick Falls • husband • Interwar American art • Jane • Janis • Jentleson • Jentleson, Katherine. Gatecrashers: The Rise of the Self-Taught Artist in America • Johnson • Johnston • kallir • Kallir, Jane ed. Grandma Moses in the Twenty-First Century • late-life success • Louis • lynne • Marling, Karal Ann. Designs on the Heart: The Homemade Art of Grandma Moses • Mary • memory painter • midcentury American art and culture • modern art • MoMA • Monahan, Anne. Horace Pippin: American Modern • Moses • Moses paintings • Mount • Mount Nebo • Mural • Murrow • nebo • Otto • Outliers and American Vanguard Art • Pollock • pop-culture phenomenon • popular culture • Porter • post-Reconstruction • postwar • post-war American art • Robertson • self-taught artists • Shelburne Museum and Skira • Shenandoah • Shenandoah Valley • Smithsonian • Smithsonian art • Smithsonian art museum • Staunton • St etienne • Taught artists • Thomas • Truman • We Are Made of Stories: Self-Taught Artists in the Robson Family Collection • Wood
• ISBN-10: 0-691-27446-0 / 0691274460
• ISBN-13: 978-0-691-27446-1 / 9780691274461