Moses, Grandma Life Magazine 1960 Signed Autograph Color Cover Photo

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Description: Life Magazine-September 19,1960-134 pages. This vintage Life Magazine features a full cover color photo of artist Grandma Moses-"Happy 100th Birthday". The magazine also features a 9 page article with photos on Grandma Moses-"100 Candles For A Gay Lady".Anna Mary Robertson Moses (September 7, 1860 - December 13, 1961), better known as "Grandma Moses" was a renowned American folk artist. She is often cited as an example of an individual successfully beginning a career in the arts at an advanced age.Moses began painting in her seventies after abandoning a career in embroidery because of arthritis. Louis J. Caldor, a collector discovered her paintings in a Hoosick Falls, New York drugstore window in 1938. In 1939, an art dealer, Otto Kallir, exhibited some of her work in his Galerie Saint-Etienne in New York. This brought her to the attention of art collectors all over the world, and her paintings were highly sought after. She went on to exhibit her work throughout Europe and in Japan, where her work was particularly well received. She continued her prolific output of paintings, the demand for which never diminished during her lifetime. Grandma Moses painted mostly scenes of rural life. Some of her many paintings were used on the covers of Hallmark cards.In 1946 her painting The Old Checkered Inn in Summer was featured in the background of a national advertising campaign.President Harry S. Truman presented her with the Women's National Press Club Award Award for outstanding accomplishment in art in 1949, and in 1951 she appeared on See It Now, a television program hosted by Edward R. Murrow. In 1952 she published her autobiography entitled Grandma Moses: My Life's History.The Life Magazine has been autographed on the front cover by Grandma Moses with a fountain pen in black..............BOTH MAGAZINE AND AUTOGRAPH ARE IN VERY GOOD CONDITION.........

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