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By

Katherine Jentleson

March 2020 | SMITHSONIAN 7

Grandma Moses Goes to the Big City (1946), a prime example of her famous folk-art style.

Show of Patriotism

How the U.S. government deployed Grandma Moses

overseas in the Cold War