Object Record
Images
Metadata
Object |
Painting |
Title |
Village of Hoosick Falls |
Artist/Creator |
Moses, Anna Mary Robertson (Grandma) |
Date |
1943 |
Description |
Painting by Anna Mary Robertson Moses (Grandma Moses) titled "Village of Hoosick Falls". Painted in 1943. Oil on pressed wood (Masonite). Signed in the lower center, "Moses". Train crossing bridge over river in center foreground, village on either side of winding river with a few people on streets. Green and brown hills in distance and white puffy clouds in sky. |
Width (inches) |
17.250 |
Height (inches) |
23.250 |
Information |
"Village of Hoosick Falls" is very similar in concept to popular nineteenth-century bird's-eye views of townscapes that, with their expansive persectives meticulous recording of individual buildings and figures, touted civic prosperity. In this painting, one can even see paintings hanging inside the windows of a building in the right foreground - likely the artist's interpretation of Thomas' Drug Store, where Moses' paintings were first "discovered" by the collector Louis Caldor in 1938. |
Related People |
Moses, Anna Mary Robertson (Grandma) |
Credit line |
Museum Purchase |
Copyright owner |
Copyright © Grandma Moses Properties, New York |
Catalog Number |
1998.1 |