GRANDMA MOSES is a 22 minute color film from 1950 on the legendary primitive artist who became an American phenomenon in the 1940's in her eighties and was amazingly famous for the rest of her life with the general public (she made it past 100 and lived into the early 1960's). Obviously shot on silent 16mm film, the movie has a quite appropriately charming original score by the famed composer Hugh Martin (Meet Me in St.
"Grandma Moses" is an interesting and charming portrait of American painter Anna Mary Robertson Moses, better known by her nom de plume of Grandma Moses. She is shown painting by her bed on her specially prepared wood cement boards, providing refreshment to her grandson as he works the farm, chatting with a neighbor.
