Object Record
Images
Metadata
Object |
Painting |
Title |
Cambridge Valley |
Artist/Creator |
Moses, Anna Mary Robertson (Grandma) |
Date |
1943 |
Description |
Cambridge Valley, 1943. Oil on pressed wood painting by Anna Mary Robertson "Grandma" Moses (1860-1961). Green landscape with patchwork of fields and wooded hills criss-crossed with roads and dotted with white buildings. River running horizontally through the center. Dark hills in distance and grey sky above. Man with two white horses ploughing field in center foreground. Car on road directly behind them. Signed lower left. |
Width (inches) |
29.750 |
Height (inches) |
24.000 |
Information |
Moses excelled as a painter of landscapes that capture the beauty and mystery of the hills and valleys surrounding her home in Eagle Bridge, New York. Anyone familiar with the topography of Washington County, New York, sometimes lovingly referred to as "Grandma Moses Country," can immediately sense how perfectly the artist has captured the way the hills gently roll into the distance and how the colors of the landscape fade from one shade of green into another, eventually disappearing into the blue sky. This view of the Cambridge Valley, looking north from the artist's farmhouse, Mt. Nebo, is Moses' metaphorical promised land. It is one of a series of paintings from early in her career that depict the same scene from an elevated, bird's-eye perspective, with a high horizon and steeply tilted landscape filled with a patchwork of fields and farmhouses. |
Related People |
Moses, Anna Mary Robertson (Grandma) |
Credit line |
Museum purchase, funds provided by exchange from the Channing Hare-Mountfort Coolidge Collection |
Copyright owner |
Copyright © Grandma Moses Properties, New York |
Catalog Number |
2024.4 |