Object Record
Images
Metadata
Object |
Cloth Fragment |
Artist/Creator |
Riverdale Fabrics |
Year Range from |
1950 |
Year Range to |
1967 |
Description |
Fabric printed with Grandma Moses painting "Checkered House" of rural town scene with large red and white checkered house and red barns set in middle ground; road with horse drawn carriages in front of buildings; green grass in foreground with fence; green hills and mountains in background. |
Width (inches) |
9.000 |
Height (inches) |
6.750 |
Subjects |
Riverdale Fabrics |
Information |
Arthur R. Armstrong, a neighbor and close friend of Moses, acquired this framed Moses fabric, part of the first 20,000,000-yard run, from Edward Kennedy, a Hoosick Falls native who was Vice President of Riverdale Fabrics. The material was originally purchased, 40 yards of it, for drapes for the Grandma Moses Schoolhouse when it was converted into a museum by the Moses family in the mid-1960s. Moses fabric was often cut up and framed as an inexpensive alternative to owning an original painting. |
Related People |
Moses, Anna Mary Robertson (Grandma) |
Credit line |
Gift of Arthur R. Armstrong |
Catalog Number |
1987.84 |