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Grandma Moses: ‘The Checkered House, 1853.’ Copyright 1985, Grandma Moses Properties Co., New York. Collection of Bennington Museum.

Bennington Museum expands view of Grandma Moses tradition

Tom Hoepf
Tom Hoepf

Grandma Moses: ‘The Checkered House, 1853.’ Copyright 1985, Grandma Moses Properties Co., New York. Collection of Bennington Museum.
Grandma Moses: ‘The Checkered House, 1853.’ Copyright 1985, Grandma Moses Properties Co., New York. Collection of Bennington Museum.
BENNINGTON, Vt. (AP) – The Bennington Museum, which boasts the largest public collection of Grandma Moses paintings, is putting on a major display to show off many of them.

“Grandma Moses and the ‘Primitive’ Tradition” will run from June 11 through Oct. 30 in a temporary exhibition that’s in addition to a permanent Grandma Moses exhibit at the museum. It contains 50 works by Moses and other primitive self-taught painters such as Patsy Santos, Forrest Moses and Wil Moses.

Grandmas Moses, whose real name was Anna Mary Robertson Moses, won worldwide fame in the 1940s with her paintings of rural American farm life.

The exhibit commemorates the 150th anniversary of her birth in 1860.

The museum’s permanent display of Moses’ work on the first floor will remain on view during this special exhibition.

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ADDITIONAL IMAGES OF NOTE

Grandma Moses: ‘The Checkered House, 1853.’ Copyright 1985, Grandma Moses Properties Co., New York. Collection of Bennington Museum.
Grandma Moses: ‘The Checkered House, 1853.’ Copyright 1985, Grandma Moses Properties Co., New York. Collection of Bennington Museum.
Addison Kingsley: ‘Winter Landscape with Yellow Barn,’ circa 1860. Courtesy Galerie St. Etienne, New York.
Addison Kingsley: ‘Winter Landscape with Yellow Barn,’ circa 1860. Courtesy Galerie St. Etienne, New York.
Winona Robertson Fisher: ‘Apple Butter Making in Virginia,’ circa 1953. Courtesy of Comollo Antiques & Fine Wine, Manchester, Vt.
Winona Robertson Fisher: ‘Apple Butter Making in Virginia,’ circa 1953. Courtesy of Comollo Antiques & Fine Wine, Manchester, Vt.
Pasquelle 'Patsy' Santo: ‘Ready for Battle,’ circa 1956. Collection of Bennington Museum.
Pasquelle ‘Patsy’ Santo: ‘Ready for Battle,’ circa 1956. Collection of Bennington Museum.