Grandma Moses, We Are Resting, 1951, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Gift of the Kallir Family, in Memory of Hildegard Bachert, 2019.55, © Grandma Moses Properties Co., New York
This exhibition sheds new light on a beloved body of work by Anna Mary Robertson Moses (1860–1961). It examines the sociocultural forces that Moses would variously reflect on or obscure in her paintings and positions her as a central figure in the history of twentieth-century American art.