Inspiration to Live Your Magic: 75 Inspiring Biographies



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Grandma Moses
Although Grandma Moses didn’t pick up a paint brush until she was 
seventy, she still had time to become world famous, with shows in the 
U.S., Europe, and Asia. She continued painting for more than thirty 
years.
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Very few artists are able to make a living from their art. Even fewer become famous 
around the world, set attendance records when their work is displayed, and have their 
paintings hanging everywhere from the White House to European and Asian museums. 
Only one artist has ever done all of that, despite the fact that she had no training and 
didn’t even start painting until she was more than seventy years old!
The incredible story of Anna “Grandma“ Moses sounds like a corny movie plot, but it’s 
all true.
The mother of ten children, Moses was a very active grandmother and great-grandmother, 
known in the little town of Hoosick Falls, New York for doing lovely embroidery. But 
arthritis was making it more difficult for her to do her needlework, and she wanted to 
make a Christmas gift for her postman. Moses decided to try painting him a picture 
instead.
The postman loved his painting, and Moses found that she enjoyed working with paint 
and canvas. Soon she was painting all the time, and giving her artwork away to friends 
and relatives.
Anna Moses’s paintings were so charming that other people wanted to buy them, so the 


woman who was about to take the art world by storm started selling her paintings for two 
to three dollars each.
Then, when Moses was seventy-eight years old, the miracle happened. In 1938, an art 
collector just happened to be passing through Hoosick Falls and saw some of her 
paintings for sale in the local drug store. He bought every one, tracked Anna Moses 
down, and then he bought every painting she had at home, too!
Within a year, three of her paintings were included in a show at the famous Museum of 
Modern Art in New York City. Galleries and collectors started talking about this amazing 
new artist who captured rural scenes and people in a delightful folk-art style.
It didn’t take long for Grandma Moses, as everyone called her, to become famous. Shows 
of her work were staged in major galleries and museums across the United States, and 
then in Europe and Asia. Everywhere that her paintings were shown, record crowds came 
out to see them and buy them.
Grandmas Moses took it all in stride. She said that starting a new career in your seventies 
and being active in your nineties just required a positive attitude.
Anna Moses kept painting right up to her death at age 101, producing more than 3,600 
paintings.
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