My Hills of Home (Grandma Moses)

My Hills of Home is a 1941 oil painting by the American outsider painter Grandma Moses, produced at age 81 and signed "Moses". It has been in the collection of the Memorial Art Gallery since 1953.[1]

My Hills of Home
ArtistGrandma Moses
Year1941
MediumOil paint, composition board
Dimensions18 in (46 cm) × 36 in (91 cm)
OwnerFred E. Robertson Edit this on Wikidata
Accession No.1953.3 Edit this on Wikidata

It shows the artist's impression of her home in Eagle Bridge, New York, with the hills of Hoosick Valley around it. The unusually wide painting was in her brother's possession, who himself made a painting with similar dimensions and the same title re-interpreting the scene in Spring green with sharper contours for the surrounding hills.[2] Fred E. Robertson was a farmer who also painted in his spare time, and like his sister he even had a show in New York at Galerie St. Etienne.[3]

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  1. ^ Painting record for 1953.3, Memorial Art Gallery, Purchased from the heirs of the artist's brother Fred E. Robertson
  2. ^ My Hills of Home by Fred E. Robertson
  3. ^ Fred E. Robertson on website of Galerie St. Etienne
  • Otto Kallir, Grandma Moses, Complete edition, New York, Harry N. Abrams, 1973, cat. nr. 99 p. 287, plate 56