A long-overdue reexamination of beloved American artist Grandma Moses, restoring
her rightful place within the canon of mid-century American Art. One of the
best-known artists of her time, and a true American legend, Anna Mary Robertson
"Grandma" Moses (1860–1961) was often marginalized as a latter-day "folk"
painter or a phenomenon of popular media. Accompanying a traveling exhibition,
this new book looks closely at the paintings themselves and the artist's
compelling biography to reassert her role in the development of a culture of
modernist art at mid-century. Presenting fresh research, several scholars
examine Moses's name, public persona, painted world, and wildly popular place in
American pop culture; address the