Property from a Private Collection, Hilton Head Island, SC
Description:
Grandma Moses (NY/VA,1860-1961), The Country Road, Oil on Masonite, Kallir 621, Moses 1133, The Country Road, August 16th, 1946, signed lower left, depicting a horse and rider on a country road, titled and dated on the original artists label verso and numbered 1133, also with Galerie St. Etienne label, New York on verso, in a giltwood frame. Frame size: 12 5/8 in. x 14 5/8 in. Literature: Otto Kallir, Grandma Moses. New York: Harry N. Abrams, 1973, number 621, p. 299, with b/w ill. Vose Galleries sale card notes the painting as No. 16354 GStE, Size 8 3/4 x 10 3/4 in., sold on 10/19/1949 to a private collector.
Provenance: The Artist; Galerie St. Etienne, New York (acquired 1946); Vose Galleries, Boston (acquired 1949); Robert Hamlin; Galerie St. Etienne (consigned by Hamlin, 1973); Mr. Charles A. Wollenzin (acquired from Galerie St. Etienne, 1976); by descent to the consignor.
Exhibited: Grandma Moses, Traveling Exhibition No. 9,: Public Library, Manitowoc, WI; St. Paul Gallery and School of Art, St. Paul, MN; Texas Technological College Art Institute, Lubbock, TX; Art Institute of Zanesville, Zanesville, OH; Cornell University College of Architecture, Ithaca, NY; State Teachers College, Lock Haven, PA; Marshall Field & Co, Chicago, IL, 1946-1947; Grandma Moses, Traveling Exhibition: Rockford Art Association, Rockford, IL; Beloit College, Beloit WI; Sate Art Gallery, Raleigh, NC; Cheltenham Township Art Center, Cheltenham, PA; Abilene Museum of Fine Arts, Hardin-Simmons University, Abilene, TX; Museum of Art, University of Kansas, Lawrence, KS; Baltimore Museum of Art, Baltimore, MD; Mattituck Historical Society, Waterbury, CT., 1947-1948; First Boston Exhibition of Paintings by Grandma Moses. Robert C. Vose Galleries, Boston, MA, October 3-22, 1949.
We would like to thank Vose Galleries and the Kallir Research Institute for their assistance in researching this painting. Copyright Grandma Moses Properties Co., New York.
Born Anna Mary Robertson in 1860, Grandma Moses is known for her naive landscape and genre paintings. Moses didn't begin painting until she was 78 when arthritis rendered her unable to continue her hobby of embroidery. She depicted happy scenes of farm life and holidays in rural New York and Virginia. Moses exhibited her work internationally into her 90s and didn't stop painting until a few months before her death at the age of 101 in 1961.
Measurements: Height: 8 3/4 in. x Width: 10 3/4 in.
Condition:
Good condition, not viewed out of frame.
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