![]() ![]() ![]() Grandma Moses, who had not attended her one-woman show, agreed to Gimbels’ “meet and greet” request and arrived accompanied by Carolyn Thomas, the owner of the Hoosick Falls drugstore, where the artist’s work was first put on display and her artistic journey had begun.Īfter the success of the Galerie St Etienne exhibition Grandma Moses works were put on display at other exhibitions in New York and Washington. Before the exhibition had finished its one-month run the large Manhattan department store, Gimbels, asked that Grandma Moses’ artwork be exhibited in their store’s large auditorium in time for the Thanksgiving Festival the following month and they invited the artist to be in attendance to talk to the shoppers. At the time of her exhibition she was eighty years of age. I ended the last blog talking about Grandma Moses successful one-man exhibition at Otto Kallir’s Manhattan Galerie St Etienne in October 1940. If you have just landed on this page I suggest, before reading this blog, you first go back and look at the earlier blogs covering the early and middle part of her life (My Daily Art Display November 6th and 9th) This is my third and final instalment of the life and times of Grandma Moses, the great American Folk artist. July Fourth by Grandma Moses (1951) Grandma Moses – Part 3 ![]()
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