Grandma Moses

In W. T. Block's latest book, "Chronicles of a Historian's Pen," there is a chapter titled "Two Elderly Women" who found a new niche in old age.
At age 70, Anna May Robertson, better known as Grandma Moses, having had little art training and much time on her hands, developed a style of primitive American art almost solely her own. She began painting rural scenes, mostly during wintertime, and during the last thirty years of her life, she finished 1,500 paintings, that now hang in art galleries all over the world. She had her first art exhibit in 1939, and by the time of her death on Dec. 13, 1961 at age 101, she had had art exhibits throughout America, Western Europe and Japan.