Grandma Moses - Clipped Signature Matted with Printed Image in Frame - 10.25 x 14"

Grandma Moses Fountain pen signature, "Grandma Moses"on off-white 4.5 x 1.5 paper slipDouble-matted and framed with a portrait for an overall size of 10.25 x 14" Fine Condition House of Roulx Letter of Authenticity   GRANDMA MOSES Anna Mary Robertson Moses grew up on a farm in upstate New York, where she worked as a hired girl, helping neighbors and relatives with cleaning, cooking, and sewing. Her father encouraged her to draw on old newsprint, and she used berry and grape juices to brighten her images. She married when she was twenty-seven and moved to a farm in Virginia, where she raised five children. Grandma Moses did not start painting until she was seventy-seven years old and looking for something to do ​“to keep busy and out of mischief” after her husband died. She painted nostalgic scenes of American life and sold them at country fairs alongside her prize-winning pickles. In 1939 a collector saw her paintings in the window of the local pharmacy and bought them all. Soon aft