Belvedere
Grandma Moses American
A self-taught artist, Moses began her career in the late 1930s, when she was in her seventies. Born in Greenwich, New York, she settled with her husband, Thomas Salmon Moses, in Virginia, where they lived for eighteen years, before returning to upstate New York in 1905. A lifelong farmwoman, Moses was renowned for her depictions of rural American life. She adopted a naïve, so-called "primitive" style that is evocative of both nineteenth-century "folk" painting and twentieth-century modernism. Comprised of multi-colored patchwork fields, this panoramic landscape depicts Belvedere, a plantation located in Virginia’s Shenandoah Valley, a subject the artist painted from memory nine times between 1942 and 1950.
