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Grandma Moses American Primitive was the first popular catalog of works by Grandma Moses by Otto Kallir, published in 1946. Moses’ first solo exhibition had taken place in 1940 "What a Farmwife Painted", at the Galerie St. Etienne in New York. It was organized by Louis J. Caldor and Otto Kallir and since that time Kallir himself had become a ...
Amish furniture first gained attention in the 1920s, when early American folk art was "discovered", and dealers and historians placed great value upon the beauty and quality of the pieces. Many different styles of Amish furniture emerged. [1] The Jonestown School began in the late 18th century in Lebanon County, Pennsylvania. The Jonestown ...
This painting was one of forty selected for her to tell her story in her own words in the book Grandma Moses American Primitive: "Away back in 1840, the farms were large, and they had many hired men, to till the land, as they raised all of their food, such as wheat, corn, oats, rhy [sic] and buckwheat and lots of lifestock [sic], horses, cows ...
Image of the painting in the 1946 version of Otto Kallir's Grandma Moses American Primitive catalog; Image of the painting in the 1975 abridged version of Otto Kallir's 1973 catalogue raisonné; Otto Kallir, Grandma Moses, Complete edition, New York, Harry N. Abrams, 1973, cat. nr. 498 p. 296, plate 85, Grandma Moses record book nr. 1024 .
It was a massive, 32-edition collection that followed in the footsteps of the seven million similar sets purchased by academics, students and hobbyists throughout the company's 244-year history.
Anna Mary Robertson Moses (September 7, 1860 – December 13, 1961), or Grandma Moses, was an American folk artist.She began painting in earnest at the age of 78 and is a prominent example of a newly successful art career at an advanced age.
Black Horses, or Lower Cambridge Valley is a 1942 oil painting by the American outsider painter Grandma Moses, produced at age 82 and signed "Moses". It was in the collection of Otto Kallir in 1975. [1]
Peter Hunt (born Frederick Lowe Schnitzer; 1896 in East Orange, New Jersey – 1967 in Cape Cod), was an American artist whose work is described as folk art or primitive art. He gained recognition for his art in the 1940s and 1950s when his decorated, refinished furniture was featured in magazines such as Life, House Beautiful, and Mademoiselle ...