Grandma Moses

In 1961, when the American farm wife Anna Mary Robertson Moses, known as Grandma Moses died, she was 101 and world-famous. Born a year before the Civil War, she was in her seventies when she taught herself to paint. And in her eighties when she became a superstar.

There are also paintings of sleigh rides, picnics and quilting bees, all laden with nostalgia for an idealized American way of life that, to this day, is still defined by such pictures. The same can be said of the highly trained illustrator Norman Rockwell, who has recently been rethought and revived.