grandma moses

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Definition of grandma moses in English English dictionary

Moses, Grandma. a US artist who did not begin painting until she was almost 70 years old. Her paintings of life in the American countryside are in the primitive style (=they are very simple, and made to look like children's paintings) (1860-1961). orig. Anna Mary Robertson born Sept. 7, 1860, Greenwich, N.Y., U.S. died Dec. 13, 1961, Hoosick Falls, N.Y. U.S. painter. She began to produce embroidery pictures after her husband died in 1927. When arthritis impaired her embroidering, she turned to painting. She had her first exhibition in a drugstore in 1938 at age

She went on to produce more than 1,000 nostalgic, naively executed scenes of turn-of-the-century rural life (e.g., Catching the Thanksgiving Turkey, Over the River to Grandma's House). By 1939 her pictures were being exhibited internationally, and from 1946 they were regularly reproduced on holiday greeting cards

Hyphenation

grand·ma Mo·ses

Turkish pronunciation

grämä mōzıs

Pronunciation

/ˈgramä ˈmōzəs/ /ˈɡræmɑː ˈmoʊzəs/