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Object Details
- Artist
- Grandma Moses, born Greenwich, NY 1860-died Hoosick Falls, NY 1961
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- Grandma Moses painted many winter scenes of farm life in which adults and children happily do their chores and play in the snow. She painted only cheerful images that were based on her memories of growing up on a farm and of being a farmwife herself. In this painting the people talking and laughing together evoke a nostalgic ideal of community life, which the artist emphasized through small stylized buildings and bright colors. The buildings and looping fences create a two-dimensional pattern on the pure white snow that underscores the picturesque, storybook scene.
- Credit Line
- Smithsonian American Art Museum, Gift of Charles Nelson Brower in memory of Charles H. and Elizabeth N. Brower
- Copyright
- © Grandma Moses Properties
- 1958
- Object number
- 2015.49
- Restrictions & Rights
- Usage conditions apply
- Type
- Painting
- Folk Art
- Medium
- oil and tempera on pressed wood
- Dimensions
- 16 1/8 × 20 1/8 in. (41 × 51.1 cm)
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- Smithsonian American Art Museum Collection
- Department
- Painting and Sculpture
- Smithsonian American Art Museum
- Topic
- Figure group
- Landscape\weather\snow
- Landscape\town
- Ceremony\holiday\Christmas
- Architecture\vehicle\sleigh
- Architecture Exterior\domestic\house
- Record ID
- saam_2015.49
- Metadata Usage (text)
- Not determined
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/vk7aa56c4dc-552c-4f02-a505-2989abd48506
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