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Forrest King Moses

Forrest King Moses (1893 - 1974) was active/lived in New York.  Forrest Moses is known for Naive rural genre, history and landscape painting.

Forrest King Moses was a folk artist whose work reflects an innocence of heart and eye as well as an ever-present, seemingly intrinsic feeling for color and design. His mother was the famous Grandma Moses (Anna Mary Robertson Moses).

Born in 1893, Moses got an early start in art, at least when compared to "Grandma." He was a fifty-six year old farmer when he began to paint pictures in a style very much like his mother's, that celebrated a fading rural life in the Adirondack Mountains in Eagle Bridge, New York.

Moses did not title his paintings, but rather grouped them by season, as "spring pictures," "summer pictures," snow pictures" and so ona very natural thing for a man of the soil to do, responsive as he was as a farmer to the cycles of nature.

Moses spoke of the things of the past that were no more during an interview with the Christian Science Monitor in December 3, 1970. The artist wanted "to show my grandsons, or anyone that's interested, the country tha   ...  [Displaying 1000 of 1811 characters.]  Artist bio

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