As a child I won an art contest. It was a huge highlight of my childhood, which was the challenge that inspired the creation of a page, Winning an Art Contest. One thing leads to another and I wrote another page to give a little insight into Grandma Moses, and then a collection of her beloved holiday paintings.
Those were written on Squidoo, which is now defunct. The site, Hubpages is their new repository.
Grandma Moses has always fascinated me, her life was full of good old American hard work and spirit, but at its last few decades took on an almost fairytale quality. Being discovered as an artist, becoming famous, and merchandising it all when well past eighty years old… that doesn’t happen very often.
It was her character qualities that interested me. Most of those had to do with her working life, and I found little that would have shed life on her sorrows, joys, or struggles. Those who handled her image were of the age of the movie moguls who made “Stars”, and seem to have applied some of the techniques to how Grandma Moses was presented to the American public.
Still I have taken those characteristics that seemed to rise to the surface throughout her life to make some observations about her that help inspire me.
