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"Grandma Moses"
1860-1961
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More Paintings (continued from card 1b) Misc. Graphics (continued from card 1a)
Over the River to Grandma 1945 35b B&W Photo of Grandma Moses 47b
Over the River to Grandma's House Grandma Moses' Signature 47b
on Thanksgiving Day 1943 36a Grandma Moses' Grave Stone 47b
Quiet Day 1951 36b
Quilting Bee 1950 37a Grandma Moses Quotes 48
See the Kite 1955 37b
Spring Flower 1960 38a
Q&A
Sugaring Off 1945 38b
Discussion Questions 49
The Burning of Troy in 1862 1943 39a
Question & Answer 50
The Old Bridge in the Valley 1944 39b
Paragraph Writing 51
The Old Checkered House 1944 40a
Chart 52
The Old Checkered House 1959 40b
The Old Oaken Bucket 1943 41a
The Old Oaken Bucket, the last 1947 41b Links 53
The Pond 1950 42a
The Tramp at Christmas 1945 42b Fun Stuff
Turk, Turk 1954 43a Coloring Pages 54
Waiting for Christmas 1960 43b Mazes 58
Washington County 1942 44a Word Search 66
Watering Hole 1954 44b
When Leaves Turn 1943 45a
Miscellaneous Graphics
6¢ U.S. Postage Stamp 1969 45b
Time Cover 1953 46a
Life Cover 1960 46b
Photo of Grandma Moses Painting 47a
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2. _____ creative B. to decorate fabric with designs using yarn or colored thread
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If I hadn't started painting, I would have raised A strange thing is memory, and hope; one looks
chickens. backward, and the other forward; one is of
today, the other of tomorrow. Memory is history
A primitive artist is an amateur whose work recorded in our brain, memory is a painter, it
sells. paints pictures of the past and of the day.
Paintin's not important. The important thing is Now that I am ninety-five years old, looking
keepin' busy. back over the years, I have seen many changes
taking place, so many inventions have been
I look out the window sometimes to seek the made. Things now go faster. In olden times
color of the shadows and the different greens in things were not so rushed. I think people were
the trees, but when I get ready to paint I just more content, more satisfied with life than they
close my eyes and imagine a scene. are today. You don’t hear nearly as much
laughter and shouting as you did in my day, and
I paint from the top down. From the sky, then what was fun for us wouldn’t be fun now.... In
the mountains, then the hills, then the houses, this age I don’t think people are as happy, they
then the cattle, and then the people. are worried. They’re too anxious to get ahead of
their neighbors, they are striving and striving to
Life is what we make it, always has been, get something better. I do think in a way that
always will be. they have too much now. We did with much
less.
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