American Sampler: Grandma Moses and the Handicraft Tradition
Anna Mary Robertson Moses, better known as Grandma Moses, became one of America's most recognized and successful folk artists.
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American Sampler: Grandma Moses and the Handicraft Tradition
Anna Mary Robertson Moses (1860–1961), better known as Grandma Moses, was an accomplished seamstress who did not begin painting until she was 78, after arthritis made it difficult to embroider. In the remaining 23 years of her life, she became one of America’s most recognized and successful folk artists, drawing on the rich tradition of handiwork that played such a major role in her life. Moses also “sampled” from a variety of other media, including popular culture prints such as Currier and Ives, as well as topographical and birds-eye-view landscapes, all of which served to inform her visual vocabulary.
This exhibition is the first of its kind to explore the formal relationships between Moses’ painting with her handicraft and other types of handiwork, including early American quilts and samplers, as well as images from popular culture, all in an effort to reveal the startling shared approach to her interest in pattern, form, and space that she employed to create her signature painting style. Featuring more than 45 paintings, embroideries, quilts, popular prints and a recreation of her studio by Luken Interiors, this exhibition is sure to be of interest to young and old, as The Dayton Art Institute’s final exhibition in its “Year of American Art.”
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