"Grandma Moses" book

13.25" x 12.25"

hardcover, 357 pages. published in 1973 and printed in New York. a large and beautiful volume of the works and life of American folk artist Grandma Moses. includes original dust cover. pages and spine are intact, front and back cover show minimal use. in overall excellent vintage condition.

from Wikipedia:
Anna Mary Robertson Moses (September 7, 1860 – December 13, 1961), or Grandma Moses, was an American folk artist. She began painting in earnest at the age of 78 and is a prominent example of a newly successful art career at an advanced age. Moses gained popularity during the 1950s, having been featured on a cover of Time Magazine in 1953. 

Moses painted scenes of rural life from earlier days, which she called "old-timey" New England landscapes. Moses said that she would "get an inspiration and start painting; then I'll forget everything, everything except how things used to be and how to paint it so people will know how we used to live." From her works of art, she omitted features of modern life, such as tractors and telephone poles.

Her early style is less individual and more realistic or primitive, with a lack of knowledge of, or perhaps rejection of, basic perspective. Initially she created simple compositions or copied existing images. As her career advanced, she created complicated, panoramic compositions of rural life.

She was a prolific painter, generating more than 1,500 canvasses in three decades.