Editing Grandma Moses (section)

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[[File:1918 fireboard byGrandmaMoses.png|thumb|[[Fireboard]] decorated by Moses in 1918]]
Moses painted scenes of rural life<ref name="Stein"/> from earlier days, which she called "old-timey" New England landscapes. Moses said that she would "get an inspiration and start painting; then I'll forget everything, everything except how things used to be and how to paint it so people will know how we used to live."<ref name="NYT obit" />  From her works of art, she omitted features of modern life, such as tractors and telephone poles.<ref>{{cite web | url=http://nmwa.org/explore/artist-profiles/grandma-moses-anna-mary-robertson-moses#sthash.7WYQ4MYA.dpuf|title=Grandma Moses (Anna Mary Robertson Moses) 1860–1961|publisher=National Museum of Women in the Arts|access-date=August 30, 2014}}</ref>

Her early style is less individual and more realistic or primitive, with a lack of knowledge of, or perhaps rejection of, [[Perspective (graphical)|basic perspective]].<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1998/07/26/nyregion/art-the-varied-tradtion-of-grandma-moses.html |title=''ART; The Varied Tradition<!--sic--> of Grandma Moses'' |first=William |last=Zimmer | work=[[The New York Times]] | date=July 26, 1998 | access-date=May 4, 2010}}</ref><ref name="Scribner">{{cite book| title = Dictionary of American Biography| last = American Council of Learned Societies| year = 1959| publisher = Scribner| isbn = 978-0-684-16794-7| page = [https://archive.org/details/isbn_0684167948/page/557 557]| url-access = registration| url = https://archive.org/details/isbn_0684167948/page/557}}</ref> Initially she created simple compositions or copied existing images. As her career advanced, she created complicated, panoramic compositions of rural life.<ref name="Met p. 390" />

She was a prolific painter, generating more than 1,500 canvasses in three decades.<ref name="Met p. 390">{{cite book|author1=Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.)|author2=Doreen Bolger|author3=Doreen Bolger Burke|title=American Paintings in the Metropolitan Museum of Art: A catalogue of works by artists born between 1846 and 1864. Vol. 3|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=73XrWkYDA-sC&pg=PA390|year=1980|publisher=Metropolitan Museum of Art|isbn=978-0-87099-244-5|page=390}}</ref> She initially charged $3 to $5 for a painting, depending upon its size, and as her fame increased her works were sold for $8,000 to $10,000.<ref name="NYT obit" /> Her winter paintings are reminiscent of some of the known winter paintings of [[Pieter Bruegel the Elder]], although she had never seen his work.<ref>{{cite book|author=Karal Ann Marling|title=Designs on the Heart: The Homemade Art of Grandma Moses|url=https://archive.org/details/designsonheartho0000marl|url-access=registration|year=2006|publisher=Harvard University Press|isbn=978-0-674-02226-3|page=[https://archive.org/details/designsonheartho0000marl/page/102 102]}}</ref> A German fan said, "There emanates from her paintings a light-hearted optimism; the world she shows us is beautiful and it is good. You feel at home in all these pictures, and you know their meaning. The unrest and the neurotic insecurity of the present day make us inclined to enjoy the simple and affirmative outlook of Grandma Moses."<ref name="NYT obit" />