It's Never Too Late to Paint

 

Grandma Moses' "When Leaves Turn"

Oil on Canvas

 

 

Grandma Moses Biography

1860 Born Anna Mary Robertson in Greenwich, NY 1872 Began work as a "hired girl" on neighboring farm Washington County, NY 1887 Married Thomas Salmon Moses; moves to Virginia Shenandoah Valley, VA  1905 Returned to New York with husband; five children Eagle Bridge, NY 1927 Thomas Salmon Moses died in Eagle Bridge, NY 1930s Embroidered pictures and  paintings Eagle Bridge, NY 1938 Display of paintings discovered by Louis J. Caldor Thomas's Drugstore, Hoosick Falls, NY 1940 1st solo show and special Thanksgiving presentation Gimbels Department Store,  New  York, NY 1949 Receives award from President Truman Washington, DC 1955 Interviewed by Edward R. Murrow Eagle Bridge, NY 1961 Dies at the age of 101 in Hoosick Falls, NY Grandma Moses is an inspiration to many folks who take up painting late in life. She was almost eighty years old before she had  her first solo show. It is never too  late to start something new. Some of my best adult drawing students told me they wanted to take  a class since their high school graduation, but life got in their way. Once they signed up to draw, they became so enthusiastic they asked for homework assignments. The only thing I asked them to not do was to show their early work to anyone who could hurt them emotionally if they laughed at their early efforts. If you have always longed to paint, now is the time.

September's artists with birthdays are:

2	Romare Bearden, 1911
3	Louis Sullivan, 1856
7	Grandma Moses, 1860
7	Jacob Lawrence, 1917
7	Leo Sewell, 1945
12	Ben Shahn, 1898
12	Richard Hunt, 1935
13	Robert Indiana, 1928
16	Jean Arp, 1886
20	Hughie Lee-Smith, 1915
22	Alma Thomas, 1891
22	Jesús Bautista Moroles, 1950
23	Suzanne Valadon, 1865
23	Paul Delvaux, 1897
23	Louise Nevelson, 1899
26	Théodore Géricault, 1791
28	Caravaggio, 1573
29	François Boucher, 1703