Details
Anna Mary Robertson 'Grandma' Moses (1860-1961)
The Old Oaken Bucket
signed 'Moses.' (lower left)
oil on masonite
24 x 28 in. (61 x 71.1 cm.)
Painted in 1947.
Provenance
The artist.
Mrs. Hugh W. Moses, daughter-in-law of the above, gift from the above, 1947.
Galerie St. Etienne, New York.
Acquired by the late owner from the above, 1999.
Literature
O. Kallir, Grandma Moses, New York, 1973, p. 300, no. 669, illustrated.
K.A. Marling, Designs on the Heart: The Homemade Art of Grandma Moses, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 2006, pp. 45, 48, 50-53, illustrated.
Exhibited
New York, Museum of American Folk Art; Baltimore, Maryland, Baltimore Museum of Art; Palm Beach, Florida, Norton Gallery; Nashville, Tennessee, Cheekwood Fine Arts Center; Omaha, Nebraska, Joslyn Art Museum; Peoria, Illinois, Lakeview Museum of Art, The World of Grandma Moses, September 12, 1984-September 22, 1985.
Tokyo, Japan, Isetan Museum; Osaka, Japan, Daimaru Museum, Grandma Moses, March 1-May 10, 1987.
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