woman who was about to take the art world by storm started selling her paintings for two
to three dollars each.
Then, when Moses was seventy-eight years old, the miracle happened. In 1938, an art
collector just happened to be passing through Hoosick Falls and saw some of her
paintings for sale in the local drug store. He bought every one, tracked Anna Moses
down, and then he bought every painting she had at home, too!
Within a year, three of her paintings were included in a show at the famous Museum of
Modern Art in New York City. Galleries and collectors started talking about this amazing
new artist who captured rural scenes and people in a delightful folk-art style.
It didn’t take long for Grandma Moses, as everyone called her, to become famous. Shows
of her work were staged in major galleries and museums across the United States, and
then in Europe and Asia. Everywhere that her paintings were shown, record crowds came
out to see them and buy them.
Grandmas Moses took it all in stride. She said that starting a new career in your seventies
and being active in your nineties just required a positive attitude.
Anna Moses kept painting right up to her death at age 101, producing more than 3,600
paintings.
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