Anna Mary Robertson (Grandma) Moses (1860-1961)

Croquet

Details

Anna Mary Robertson (Grandma) Moses (1860-1961)
Croquet
signed 'Moses.' (lower right)
tempera on masonite
16 x 24 in. (40.6 x 61 cm.)
Painted in 1957.

Provenance

The artist.
James S. and Hortense C.H. Alexander, probably acquired from the above.
By descent to the present owner.

Literature

O. Kallir, Grandma Moses, New York, 1973, p. 318, no. 1302, illustrated.

Exhibited

New Britain, Connecticut, The New Britain Museum of American Art, Memory is a Painter: The Art of Grandma Moses, July 8-September 20, 1998.

Lot Essay

This work, painted on August 26, 1957, was assigned number 1793 by the artist and entered in her record book on page 75.

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

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