SHELBURNE, Vt. — The Grandma Moses story reads a lot like an artist’s fairy tale. In 1938, Anna Mary Robertson Moses, a 78-year-old grandmother living on a farm in upstate New York, hung a few of her ...

BENNINGTON, Vt. — Grandma Moses has a branding problem. Some critics invoke her name derisively, categorizing her alongside mom, baseball, and apple pie. Art, you know, isn’t supposed to be ...

Widowed farmer's wife Anna Mary Robertson Moses didn't take up oil painting as a hobby until she was 75—and it was a while before the talents of this Eagle Bridge, New York, native were acknowledged.

Artist Grandma Moses and Galerie St. Etienne founder Otto Kallir on the front porch of the painter’s house in Eagle Bridge, New York (1944) (photo © Grandma Moses ...

Vienna’s tiny Neue Galerie was bright last week with crude, cheery pictures of U.S. farm life, New York State style. The paintings were the work of 89-year-old “Primitive” Grandma Moses, making her ...