Hoosick Falls in Winter is a 1944 oil painting by the American outsider painter Grandma Moses, produced at age 84 and signed "Moses". It has been in the collection of The Phillips Collection since 1949.[1]
| Hoosick Falls in Winter | |
|---|---|
| Artist | Grandma Moses |
| Year | 1944 |
| Medium | Oil paint, hardboard |
| Dimensions | 50.165 cm (19.750 in) × 60.325 cm (23.750 in) |
| Location | The Phillips Collection |
| Accession No. | 1392  |
It shows a scene of the artist's impression of a train crossing the Hoosic River, with figures in the village of Hoosick Falls, New York watching in a peaceful winter landscape.
This painting was one of forty selected for her to tell her story in her own words in the book Grandma Moses American Primitive: "The Hill lands of the Hoosick River were the hunting grounds of the Mohicans..."[2]
See also
editReferences
edit- ^ Painting record for 1392, The Phillips Collection
- ^ Grandma Goes to the City, Grandma Moses with Otto Kallir, Grandma Moses, American primitive - forty paintings with comments by Grandma Moses, together with her life's history, 1946
- Image of the painting in the 1975 abridged version of Otto Kallir's 1973 catalogue raisonné
- Otto Kallir, Grandma Moses, Complete edition, New York, Harry N. Abrams, 1973, cat. nr. 425 p. 295, plate 216, Grandma Moses record book nr. 810 .