Apple Pickers

Details

Anna Mary Robertson (Grandma) Moses (1860-1961)
Apple Pickers
oil on board
14 x 13½ in. (35.6 x 34.3 cm.)

Provenance

Louis J. Caldor, New York.
Galerie Elke und Werner Zimmer, Dusseldorf.

Literature

O. Kallir, Grandma Moses, New York, 1973, pp. 39-40, p. 285, fig. 25, no. 5, illustrated

Exhibited

New York, Galerie St. Etienne, What A Farm Wife Painted: Works by Anna Mary Moses, October 1940, no. 30
Hamburg, Germany, Internationale Naive Kunst, 1981, no. 80

Lot Essay

The present work, executed in 1940 or earlier, was included in Grandma Moses's first one-person show at Galerie St. Etienne. O. Kallir comments: "Many of the titles Grandma Moses gave her pictures, then and later, indicate what she considered to be the essential content of the painting. In this first show, there were such titles as Apple Pickers, All Dressed Up for Sunday, and The Old Churchyard on Sunday Morning. Each bespoke the artist's involvement with a given theme. One felt that what she tried to express was always a personal experience, what she depicted was always something she had been part of. Whether the picture was of a washday or a Sunday, it was her washday, her Sunday." (Grandma Moses, New York, 1973, p. 40)

The copyright for this picture is reserved to Grandma Moses Properties, Co., Inc., New York.

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