Object Record
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Metadata
Object |
Painting |
Title |
Mt. Nebo in Winter |
Artist/Creator |
Moses, Anna Mary Robertson (Grandma) |
Date |
1943 |
Description |
Mt. Nebo in Winter, 1943. Oil on pressed wood painting by Anna Mary Robertson "Grandma" Moses (1860-1961). Snowy landscape with group of white houses and red barns in midground. Several horse drawn slighs and people on road in foreground. Wooded hills and fields in background and cloudy sky above. Signed in lower right. |
Width (inches) |
26.500 |
Height (inches) |
20.500 |
Information |
In 1905 Moses and her family purchased a farm in Eagle Bridge, New York, after living 18 years in the Shenandoah Valley of Virginia. They named their new place Mount Nebo after their last home in Virginia, which had been named in honor of their family name (Mount Nebo was the place where the biblical Moses was granted a view of the Promised Land before his death). Their new home had panoramic views of the fertile Cambridge Valley to the north and the Hoosic Valley to the south, recalling the biblical land of milk and honey. With its limited palette of largely whites and grays, this painting is an excellent example of Moses’ skills, conveying much with little through subtle contrasts of various shades of white and gray. Her farmhouse almost glows, as if illuminated from within. |
Related People |
Moses, Anna Mary Robertson (Grandma) |
Credit line |
Gift of the Kallir family in honor of Hildegard Bachert |
Copyright owner |
Copyright © Grandma Moses Properties, New York |
Catalog Number |
2024.1 |