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Grandma Moses (Anna Mary Robertson Moses) · c. 1940

Provenance

Ownership history

  1. Sidney Janis (1896–1989), Sidney Janis Art Gallery, New York, by 1973 [Kallir 1973, cat. 32]; transferred to an irrevocable trust, Apr. 1988 [Janis and his two sons, Conrad and Carroll, served as co-executors of the trust until Sidney’s death in 1989; Conrad and Carroll continued as co-executors of the trust until its dissolution in 1995]; distributed to Conrad Janis (1928–2022) and Maria Janis (born Grimm, 1946–2021), Los Angeles, Nov. 1995; transferred to the Living Trust of Maria and Conrad Janis; given through Pace Gallery, New York [Pace Gallery inventory sheet, 86137; copy in curatorial object file], to the Art Institute of Chicago, 2024.

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Literature

Published references

  • Annita Brenner, “American Primitives,” <em>New York Times Magazine</em> (Apr. 6, 1941): 146 (ill.)
  • Sidney Janis, <em>They Taught Themselves: American Primitive Painters of the 20th Century</em> (Dial Press, 1942), 132-133 (ill.).
  • Otto Kallir, <em>Grandma Moses</em> (Harry N. Abrams, 1973), 285, cat. 32 (ill.).
  • Elizabeth Pope, "Four Paintings by Grandma Moses," <em>Art Institute of Chicago</em>, Nov. 21, 2024, <a href="https://www.artic.edu/articles/1162/four-paintings-by-grandma-moses">https://www.artic.edu/articles/1162/four-paintings-by-grandma-moses</a>, (ill.).

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