"If I didn't start painting," she said late in life, "I would have raised c
"If I didn't start painting," she said late in life, "I would have raised chickens."  And about her first exhibition of 1938 she recalled, "When I had quite a few paintings on hand, someone suggested that I send them down to the old Thomas' drug store in Hoosick Falls, so I tried that.  I also exhibited a few at the Cambridge Fair with some canned fruits and raspberry jam.  I won a prize for my fruit and jam, but no pictures."  Discovered by Louis J. Calder, who was this primitive artist of Catching the Turkey for Thanksgiving, whose 100th birthday in 1960 was proclaimed an official holiday in the state of New York?
"If I didn't start painting," she said late in life, "I would have raised chickens."  
Anna Mary Robertson "Grandma" Moses (accept Robertson)