Folk artist Grandma Moses (born Anna Mary Robertson Moses) began painting at 76, when her arthritic hands could no longer embroider. Not one to sit around idly after a life of farm work, she took up painting. She never had any formal art training, or much education at all, but an art dealer passing through her town of Eagle Bridge, NY saw her works in a drug store, bought them for a few dollars, and arranged to have them shown in the Museum of Modern Art in New York City. At the time of her death, more than a thousand canvases later, she had paintings in museums as far away as Vienna and Paris. Grandma Moses died in 1961 at the age of 101. Read Who Cares? about the struggle for dignity at Woodruff Home for the Aged, “a lively place where old people go to die.” Learn more about the book and its characters, aged 9-90, in NOVELS.
You’re never too old to take up a new hobby
Woodruff Home for the Aged, a lively place where old people go to die
