a reputation as the new Grand Pop Moses. Primitive in manner and thickly impastoed, Grooms’s paintings are nostalgic vignettes of ordinary life. In a show of 36 works, which opened in Manhattan ...

Soon she found she had to rest her back. To occupy her busy fingers, Anna Moses (80) decided to take up painting. She ordered a set of paints from Sears, Roebuck, got herself some old planks ...

Grandma Moses Goes to the Big City (1946). Smithsonian American Art Museum. Gift of the Kallir Family in memory of Otto kallir. © Grandma Moses Properties Co., New ...

Moses named names. Among them: ¶ Eliel Saarinen, Finnish founder of the Cranbrook (Mich.) Academy of Art. His city planning, said Moses, leads “straight into communal land ownership.” ...