Remembering Grandma Moses - Beth Moses Hickok

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Résumé :
This is a portrayal, not of Grandma Moses's primitive paintings, but the woman herself: a crusty, feisty, upstate New York farmwife and grandmother, as portrayed in affectionate detail from the author's diary, her letters to her mother, and her memories by Beth Moses Hickok, who married into the family at 22, and raised two of Grandma's granddaughters. The book is set in 1934 in Bennington, Vermont, four years before Grandma was discovered as an artist and who soon gained national renown. Grandma Moses melded direct observation of nature and personal memories, resulting in idiosyncratic, yet engaging, stories of America. Remembering Grandma Moses includes treasured family snapshots, and an album of photographs that evoke the landscape of Eagle Bridge, New York, Grandma Moses's home for most of her long life. The cover depicts a rare colorful yarn painting given to the author as a wedding present by the artist....

Biographie:
Beth Moses Hickock (1911-2018) was a graduate of Pepperell, Mass. High School and attended two years of music school. In 1934 after the death of Grandma Moses's daughter she married Frank Moses and became the stepmother of Grandma Moses's two granddaughters. After Frank's death in 1971, she married Chester Julian Hickok in Bennington, VT where she lived for the rest of her life. For many years, she worked as a telephone operator for AT&T in the Dorset office and was the first music teacher in local rural schools and was active in AARP and other community groups in Bennington,...

Sommaire:
This is a portrayal, not of Grandma Moses's primitive paintings, but the woman herself: a crusty, feisty, upstate New York farmwife and grandmother, as portrayed in affectionate detail from her diary, her letters to her mother, and her memories by Beth Moses Hickok, who married into the family at 22, and raised two of Grandma's granddaughters. The book is set in 1934 in Bennington, Vermont, four years before Grandma was discovered as an artist and who soon gained national renown. Grandma Moses melded direct observation of nature and personal memories, resulting in idiosyncratic, yet engaging, stories of America. Remembering Grandma Moses includes treasured family snapshots, and an album of photographs that evoke the landscape of Eagle Bridge, New York, Grandma Moses's home for most of her long life. The cover depicts a rare colorful yarn painting given to the author as a wedding present by the artist....