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Grandma Moses

1860 - 1961

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Anna Mary Robertson Moses (September 7, 1860 – December 13, 1961), or Grandma Moses, was an American folk artist. She began painting in earnest at the age of 78 and is a prominent example of a newly successful art career at an advanced age. Moses gained popularity during the 1950s, having been featured on a cover of Time Magazine in 1953. She was a subject of numerous television programs and of a 1950 Oscar-nominated biographical documentary. Read more on Wikipedia

Her biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Grandma Moses is the 884th most popular painter (up from 950th in 2019), the 3,404th most popular biography from United States (down from 3,118th in 2019) and the 33rd most popular American Painter.

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Among PAINTERS

Among painters, Grandma Moses ranks 884 out of 2,023. Before her are Toros Roslin, Sharaku, Maximilien Luce, Jacques Villon, Aleksander Orłowski, and Felix Nussbaum. After her are Louise Catherine Breslau, Ma Yuan, Giovanni Ambrogio de Predis, Huang Tingjian, Antoine Pesne, and Jacopo Amigoni.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1860, Grandma Moses ranks 59. Before her are Christen C. Raunkiær, Charles Curtis, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Grand Duke Dmitry Konstantinovich of Russia, Walter Sickert, and Douglas Hyde. After her are Florence Harding, Sidney Paget, Lizzie Borden, Bruno Liljefors, Carl Anton Larsen, and Karel Kramář. Among people deceased in 1961, Grandma Moses ranks 56. Before her are Henri Breuil, Anna May Wong, Thomas Beecham, Nicola Canali, Maya Deren, and Paul Ramadier. After her are Herbert Pitman, Hélène Dutrieu, Howard P. Robertson, Robert Garrett, Otto Ruge, and Ludwik Fleck.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Grandma Moses ranks 3,404 out of 20,380. Before her are Susan Flannery (1939), Harry Dexter White (1892), Mary Baker Eddy (1821), Michael Bolton (1953), Don McLean (1945), and Ben Shapiro (1984). After her are Coleman Hawkins (1904), Merce Cunningham (1919), Benjamin Tucker (1854), Curtis Hanson (1945), Howard S. Becker (1928), and Artie Shaw (1910).

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Among PAINTERS In United States

Among painters born in United States, Grandma Moses ranks 33. Before her are Julian Schnabel (1951), Robert Reid (1862), Barbara Kruger (1945), Anna Lea Merritt (1844), Henry Hill (1943), and Donald Judd (1928). After her are Lee Krasner (1908), James Turrell (1943), Beatrice Wood (1893), Bruce Nauman (1941), Gilbert Stuart (1755), and Evel Knievel (1938).

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