Do you know "Grandma Moses"?

Do you know "Grandma Moses"?

Recently I found her and I was impressed by her works and life.

Grandma Moses, who had spent most of her life as a farm woman in rural America, She began working on embroidery at the age of 72 at the urging of her second daughter and gave her works as gifts to friends and family. However, as her rheumatism worsened, embroidery became more difficult, and at the suggestion of her sister, she began painting at the age of 75. This was a turning point in Grandma Moses' life.

　In 1978, when Moses was 78 years old, a New York collector, Louis J. Kaldor, "discovered" and purchased a work she had placed in a local Hoosick Falls drugstore. The following year, three of her works were included in a limited exhibition, "Contemporary Unknown American Painters," in the Members Room of the Museum of Modern Art in New York.

　At the age of 80, she held her first solo exhibition at the Otto Kallir's Galerie St. Etienne, N.Y. This was the first solo exhibition at the Galerie St. Etienne, N.Y., by Otto Kallir, who had discovered Moses' artistic potential. Kallir continued to play a central role in the dissemination of Moses' works. From this point on, Moses' popularity spread rapidly, and even after her death at the age of 101, she remained a favorite of many people until the present day.

She started her career '70s.

Wow...

It's never too late to start something.
I guess that she was just enjoying her life and the collector found it.

Life is unpredictable.
Find what we love and enjoy it.