Five members of the Take Joy Society gathered together today for a Grandma Moses Painting Party. Anna Mary Robertson Moses, otherwise known as Grandma Moses was born in 1860 in Washington Co., New York. She and her brothers would draw on the newsprint paper their father brought home on his trips into town. Anna Mary would color her pictures using grape juice or berries. She especially loved the color red. After she married in 1887 she and her husband moved to the Shenandoah Valley in Virginia. She birthed 10 children there, but only five survived infancy. In 1905 they moved back to New York and bought a farm they named Mt. Nebo. The only painting she did in those years was decorative painting on furniture. Because she liked to keep busy she took up embroidery and made "yarn pictures" in the 1930s when house and farm work became too strenuous for her. Here is an example of her yarn pictures. . . .
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Mt. Nebo on the Hill
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