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- Died
- Birth nameAnna Mary Robertson
- Grandma Moses was born on September 7, 1860 in Greenwich, New York, USA. She was married to Thomas Salmon Moses. She died on December 13, 1961 in Hoosick Falls, New York, USA.
- SpouseThomas Salmon Moses(November 9, 1887 - January 15, 1927) (his death, 10 children)
- Artist who began her career at age 77.
- Only 5 of her 10 children survived childhood.
- Copy of detail from her painting 'July Fourth' is pictured on a 6¢ US commemorative postage stamp issued in her honor, 11 September 1968.
- Moses' work has been a subject of numerous museum exhibitions worldwide and has been extensively merchandised, such as on greeting cards.
- Norman Rockwell and Grandma Moses were friends who lived over the Vermont-New York state border from each other. Moses lived in Eagle Bridge, New York and after 1938 the Rockwells had a house in nearby Arlington, Vermont.[25] She appears on the far left edge in the Norman Rockwell painting Christmas Homecoming, which was printed on The Saturday Evening Post's December 25, 1948, cover.
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