Grandma Moses

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Grandma Moses: References & Edit History

Additional Reading

Otto Kallir, Grandma Moses (1973); Jane Kallir, Grandma Moses: The Artist Behind the Myth (1982, reissued 1989), and Grandma Moses: 25 Masterworks (1997); William C. Ketchum, Jr., Grandma Moses: An American Original (1996).

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Article History

Type	Description	Contributor	Date
	First paragraph modernization.	Encyclopaedia Britannica	Mar 28, 2024
	Anniversary information added.		Dec 09, 2023
	Anniversary information added.		Sep 03, 2023
	Add new Web site: Norman Rockwell Museum - Illustration History - Biography of Grandma Moses (Anna Mary Robertson Moses).	Gloria Lotha	Mar 26, 2021
	Add new Web site: Artnet - Biography of Grandma Moses.	Gloria Lotha	Mar 19, 2019
	Add new Web site: Making Art Fun! - Art Library - Biography of Grandma Moses.	Yamini Chauhan	Jul 30, 2014
	Add new Web site: American Art at The Phillips Collection - Biography of Grandma Moses.	Grace Young	Apr 23, 2014
	Add new Web site: National Museum of Women in the Arts - Biography of Grandma Moses.	Grace Young	Apr 23, 2014
	Add new Web site: United States History - Biography of Grandma Moses.	Grace Young	Apr 23, 2014
	Added image of Grandma Moses painting.	Richard Pallardy	Sep 07, 2010
	Added new Web site: Notable Biographies - Biography of Grandma Moses.	Shiveta Singh	Nov 28, 2007
	Article revised.	The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica	Jan 18, 2002
	Article revised.	The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica	Dec 30, 1999
	Article added to new online database.	The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica	Oct 13, 1999