"Grandma Gatewood Emma Rowena Gatewood, better known as Grandma Gatewood (October 25, 1887–June 4, 1973), was an extreme hiker and ultra-light hiking pioneer who was the first woman to hike the Appalachian Trail from Mount Oglethorpe in Georgia to Mount Katahdin in Maine solo, and in one season. Gatewood was born to a farm family of 15 children in Guyan Township, Gallia County, Ohio. At the age of 19 she married 27 year-old P. C. Gatewood, a college educated primary school teacher, and later tobacco farmer, with whom she had 11 children. She had 24 grandchildren, 30 great-grandchildren, and one"
"Grandma Moses Anna Mary Robertson Moses (September 7, 1860 – December 13, 1961), known by her nickname Grandma Moses, was an American folk artist. She began painting in earnest at the age of 78 and is often cited as an example of an individual who successfully began a career in the arts at an advanced age. Her works have been shown and sold in the United States and abroad and have been marketed on greeting cards and other merchandise. Moses' paintings are displayed in the collections of many museums. ""Sugaring Off"" was sold for US $1.2 million in 2006. Moses"
"their meaning. The unrest and the neurotic insecurity of the present day make us inclined to enjoy the simple and affirmative outlook of Grandma Moses."" During a visit to Hoosick Falls in 1938, Louis J. Caldor, an art collector who worked as an engineer in the state of New York, discovered paintings made by Moses in the window of a drug store. He bought their supply and ten more from her Eagle Bridge house for $3 or $5 each. The next year, three Grandma Moses paintings were included in New York's Museum of Modern Art exhibition entitled ""Contemporary Unknown American"
"American Red Cross and Defense Secretary during the Korean War. Grandma Moses was honored with a 6-cent stamp in 1969 among the American Folklore issue. Born in Greenwich, New York, she retired from Staunton, Virginia farm work in her seventies and began painting. She and her husband spent much of their lives in the Shenandoah Valley. A self-taught artist, discovered in 1939 she produced over 1,500 paintings, including several after her 100th birthday. Her work features rural landscapes with traditional activities evoking simpler times. The stamp is a detail from her ""Fourth of July"" completed in 1951 when she was"
"wit, she could be sharp-tongued with a sycophant and stern with an errant grandchild."" She was a live-in housekeeper for a total of 15 years, starting at 12 years of age. One of her employers noticed her appreciation for their prints made by Currier and Ives, and they supplied her with art materials to create drawings. Moses and her husband began their married life in Virginia, where they worked on farms. In 1905, they returned to the Northeastern United States and settled in Eagle Bridge, New York. The couple had ten children, five of whom survived infancy. She expressed an"
"The directness and vividness of her paintings restored a primitive freshness to our perception of the American scene. Both her work and her life helped our nation renew its pioneer heritage and recall its roots in the countryside and on the frontier. All Americans mourn her loss."" After her death, her work was exhibited in several large traveling exhibitions in the United States and abroad. Some of the public collections of her work are: Some of her works are: Grandma Moses Anna Mary Robertson Moses (September 7, 1860 – December 13, 1961), known by her nickname Grandma Moses, was an"
"He was owned by Billy Grandy and raised with his children. When he was about eight years old, Moses was inherited by James Grandy, his playmate of the same age, who was his deceased master's son. His family was separated when his siblings and father were sold. His mother hid some of her children at times to prevent them from being sold. Among the people that Grandy witnessed being beaten were his mother, a pregnant women, and a 12-year-old boy, who was beaten until he died. He was subject to beatings, and not having enough to eat, he was also"
"loves and defends the simple life. Granny's full name, Daisy Moses, is allegedly an homage to the popular and dearly loved folk artist Anna Mary Robertson, known to the world as Grandma Moses, who died in 1961, a year before ""The Beverly Hillbillies"" made its television debut. Granny is frequently referred to as ""Granny Clampett"" in a number of episodes, but technically she is a Moses. Granny appears in all 274 episodes. Elly May (Donna Douglas in all 274 episodes), the only child of Jed and Rose Ellen Clampett, is a mountain beauty with the body of a pinup girl"
"moved to a farm in Eagle Bridge, New York at her husband's urging. When Thomas Moses was about 67 years of age in 1927, he died of a heart attack, after which Anna's son Forrest helped her operate the farm. Anna Moses never married again. She retired and moved to a daughter's home in 1936. Anna Mary was known as either ""Mother Moses"" or ""Grandma Moses,"" and although she first exhibited as ""Mrs. Moses,"" the press dubbed her ""Grandma Moses,"" and the nickname stuck. As a young wife and mother, Moses was creative in her home; for example, in 1918"
"did not form a close bond with Minnie. Barbara married Mervyn Torres, and as of 2000 had six children and thirteen grandchildren. Minnie went on to have six further children with her husband ""Motorcar"" Jim Ngala, including Aileen, Betty, Raymond and Dora Mpetyane, and two others who by 2010 had died. Her grandchildren include Fred Torres, who founded private art gallery DACOU in 1993, and artist Teresa Purla (or Pwerle). Minnie began painting in late 1999 or 2000, when she was almost 80. When asked why she had not begun earlier (painting and batik works had been created at Utopia"
"the Wigwam. It was erected in March, 2018. Queena Stovall Queena Stovall (20 December 1887 – 27 June 1980) was an American folk artist sometimes called ""The Grandma Moses of Virginia."" Born Emma Serena Dillard in Amherst County, Virginia, she married at age nineteen and lived on a farm. After her brother persuaded her to take an art class as nearby Randolph-Macon College in Lynchburg, Stoval began painting at age sixty-two, and her career as an artist lasted about two decades. She completed forty-seven paintings before her death, most depicting everyday events of both black and white people living in"
"Ethel Wright Mohamed Ethel Wright Mohamed (October 13, 1906 – February 15, 1992) was an American artist, best known for her embroidered scenes of country life. She is sometimes compared to ""Grandma Moses,"" both for her folk art style of illustration and her late start as an artist. Ethel Lee Wright was born on a farm in Webster County, Mississippi, the eldest child of Elijah Wright and Nina Bell Ramsay Wright. She learned to embroider as a child, from her mother. As a teenager she worked at a bakery in Shaw, Mississippi. Ethel Wright Mohamed returned to embroidery after she"
"was a member of the Society of Mayflower Descendants and Daughters of the American Revolution. Her 100th birthday was proclaimed ""Grandma Moses Day"" by New York Governor Nelson Rockefeller. ""LIFE"" magazine celebrated her birthday by featuring her on its September 19, 1960, cover. The children's book ""Grandma Moses Story Book"" was published in 1961. Grandma Moses died at age 101 on December 13, 1961 at the Health Center in Hoosick Falls, New York. She is buried there at the Maple Grove Cemetery. President John F. Kennedy memorialized her: ""The death of Grandma Moses removed a beloved figure from American life."
"Her paintings were exhibited throughout Europe and the United States over the next 20 years. Otto Kallir established the Grandma Moses Properties, Inc. for her. The paintings of Grandma Moses were used to publicize American holidays, including Thanksgiving, Christmas and Mother's Day. During the 1950s, her exhibitions broke attendance records around the world. Art historian Judith Stein noted: ""A cultural icon, the spry, productive nonagenarian was continually cited as an inspiration for housewives, widows and retirees."" Her paintings were reproduced on Hallmark greeting cards, tiles, fabrics, and ceramics. They were also used to market products, like coffee, lipstick, cigarettes, and"
"labourer, and was one of seven siblings. After his mother died, his family separated. Moses left home and rode the railroad at just 12 years old. He returned to St. Louis and attended school while living at the home of Jewel Richie, his English teacher. He graduated from Tennessee State University after serving in the United States Army, then went to graduate school at Kansas University, gaining a master's degree. He taught briefly at Grambling College before attempting an acting career in New York City. He married Gwendolyn Mumma Landes in 1966, becoming stepfather to her daughter Kirsten Sarah Landes."
"of the largest in Canada. Moses was born on the island of Grand Manan in 1881, the second of three children in his family. His father and grandfather were both taxidermists who collected and mounted birds as a hobby. His grandfather, John Thomas Chiselden Moses, was born in England, where he learned taxidermy before emigrating to Canada as a young man. He later lived in Maine and finally settled in the village of North Head in 1872 with his wife and several of their ten children. He compiled a list of Grand Manan birds for a book published in 1876,"
"Queena Stovall Queena Stovall (20 December 1887 – 27 June 1980) was an American folk artist sometimes called ""The Grandma Moses of Virginia."" Born Emma Serena Dillard in Amherst County, Virginia, she married at age nineteen and lived on a farm. After her brother persuaded her to take an art class as nearby Randolph-Macon College in Lynchburg, Stoval began painting at age sixty-two, and her career as an artist lasted about two decades. She completed forty-seven paintings before her death, most depicting everyday events of both black and white people living in her native Amherst County. During her lifetime, Stovall"
"one of the most well-known self-taught artists, often referred to as the black Grandma Moses. Painting from memory, she is credited as an important social and cultural historian for her documentation of plantation life in the early 20th century. Her paintings portray picking cotton and pecans, washing clothes, baptisms, and funerals. Many of her paintings had similar subjects, but each one is unique. Hunter was noted for painting on anything, particularly discarded items such as window shades, jugs, bottles, and gourds and cardboard boxes. Her paintings rarely run larger than 18 by 24 inches. Her work has generally been considered"
"Jewish immigrants. He and his wife welcomed many strangers into their home and helped them find work and establish new lives in Ottawa. He travelled to New York in order to acquire a Torah for his congregation, and would help transform the deceased to the closet Jewish community. In 1874, 43-year-old Moses met 17-year-old Pauline Reich, and they married within the year. In 1876, their first child, a son named Alexander, was born in New York. They would eventually have eleven more children. Soon after the birth of his first son, he moved his young family back to Ottawa where"
"Moses Grandy Moses Grandy ( - unknown), was an African-American author, abolitionist, and, for more than the first four decades of his life, an enslaved person. At eight years of age he became the property of his playmate, James Grandy and two years later he was hired out for work. The monies Moses earned were collected and held until James Grandy turned 21. Grandy helped build the Great Dismal Swamp Canal and learned how to navigate boats. It was that skill that led him to be made commander of several boats that traveled the canal and Pasquotank River, transporting merchandise"
"During the 1940s, when works by the Austrian masters were almost impossible to sell, Kallir achieved a major success with the ""discovery"" of the self-taught octogenarian painter Anna Mary Robertson Moses. Known worldwide as ""Grandma"" Moses, she was one of the most famous artists of the Cold-War years, and the most successful female painter of her time. Kallir's approach relied heavily on cooperation with museums and scholarship. In 1960, he collaborated with Thomas Messer to organize the first American museum exhibition of Schiele's work. It opened at Boston's Institute of Contemporary Art (of which Messer was then director) and traveled"
"We Are"". She wrote about love, family and career issues in ""Funny, You Don't Look Like a Grandmother"" (1989). Lois and her first husband Marc Wyse divorced in 1980; the couple had two children, Robert Wyse and Mrs. Katherine Goldman. In 1982, she remarried to theatrical producer Lee Guber, who died in 1988. In 1990, she remarried to Harvey Meyerhoff, son of businessman Joseph Meyerhoff. She died of cancer in 2007, aged 80. She was survived by her daughter, Katherine, and son-in-law Henry Goldman; son Robert and daughter-in-law Denise Wyse; stepson Zev Guber and wife Heidi; and eight grandchildren. Her"
"Ed Moses (artist) Ed Moses (April 9, 1926 – January 17, 2018) was an American artist based in Los Angeles and an innovative and central figure of postwar West Coast art. Moses exhibited at the Ferus Gallery in 1957 along with other prominent artists, becoming widely known over the next five decades. Moses was born to Olivia Branco Alphosus Lemuel Moses on a ship travelling from Hawaii to San diego on April 9, 1926. The youngest of 3 children, Moses' brother George had died before he was born. When he was 10, his older brother Johnny (age 14) died as"
"manifestation of a childhood dream. With no time in her difficult farm-life to pursue painting, she was obliged to set aside her passion to paint. At age 92 she wrote, ""I was quite small, my father would get me and my brothers white paper by the sheet. he liked to see us draw pictures, it was a penny a sheet and lasted longer than candy."" It was her father's encouragement that fed her passion to paint and this dream was able to manifest later in her life. Moses painted scenes of rural life from earlier days, which she called ""old-timey"""
"of the album was derived from the short film """"Jack Takes a Vacation"""" that was co-produced, co-written and directed by Moses. He also played the title role. Scenes from the film were intercut and used in the music video for """"Evil and Dangerous Men"""". Moses married Joni Morris in 1974. They had two sons, Richard, III and Tarrant, before they separated in 1982. In 1988, Moses married Colette Benhaim; they have four children together, all sons, Ronson, Adam, Dan and Naftali. Moses was raised an Episcopalian but in his forties he converted to Orthodox Judaism. In an interview with Internet"
"as Daisy ""Granny"" Moses, the mother-in-law of patriarch J.D. ""Jed"" Clampett in ""The Beverly Hillbillies"". The character was so named as an honour to the artist Anna Mary Robertson Moses, who had died aged 100 the previous year and only started her professional career as a painter in her latter years and was better known as Granny Moses. According to Filmways publicist Ted Switzer, series creator and producer Paul Henning had decided to cast Bea Benaderet as Granny. However, when Ryan read for the role, ""with her hair tied back in a bun and feisty as all get-out"", she just"
"cameras. In 1950, the National Press Club cited her as one of the five most newsworthy women and the National Association of House Dress Manufacturers honored her as their 1951 Woman of the Year. At age 88, ""Mademoiselle"" magazine named Grandma Moses a ""Young Woman of the Year."" She was awarded two honorary doctoral degrees. The first was bestowed in 1949 from Russell Sage College and the second two years later from the Moore College of Art and Design. President Harry S. Truman presented her with the Women's National Press Club trophy Award for outstanding accomplishment in art in 1949."
"guidance of KH Marzuqi and KH Mahrus Ali; Al Munawwar Krapyak Yogyakarta under KH Ali Ma'shum and KH Abdul Qadir; and Al Azhar University of Cairo. Gus Mus is married to Siti Fatmah and they have 7 (seven) children : Ienas Tsuroiya, Kautsar Uzmut, Raudloh Quds, Rabiatul Bisriyah, Nada, Almas and Muhammad Bisri Mustofa. From his children marriages, he has 5 (five) sons in law : Ulil Abshar Abdalla, Reza Shalahuddin Habibi, Ahmad Sampton, Wahyu Salvana, and Fadel Irawan, with 8 (eight) grandsons: Ektada Bennabi Mohamad; Ektada Bilhadi Mohamad; Muhammad Ravi Hamadah Habibi, Muhammad Raqie Haidarah Habibi; Muhammad Najie Ukasyah,"
"was unable to follow the Kiowa tradition of having the grandparents directly raise their grandchildren, so Jennings raised her three children by herself. She married Carl Jennings in 1993. As of 2004, she had four grandchildren, and she also raised her sister's eight children following her death. Two of Jennings' children are also traditional artists. Gabriel Morgan is a ledger artist, pipe maker and flute player. Seth Morgan is also a ledger artist and pipe maker, in addition to working with beads, making bows and arrows, and writing poetry. As of 2003, she has survived four strokes. Vanessa Jennings Vanessa"
"interest in art throughout her life, including embroidery of pictures with yarn, until arthritis made this pursuit too painful. Anna Mary Robertson was born in Greenwich, New York on September 7, 1860; she was the third of ten children born to Margaret Shanahan Robertson and Russell King Robertson. She was raised with four sisters and five brothers. Her father ran a flax mill and was a farmer. As a child, Moses attended a one-room school for a short period of time. That school is now the Bennington Museum in Vermont, which has the largest collection of her works in the"
"named Bräunchen Moses (whose parents, Abraham and Reile Moses, were both deceased by that time). Shortly before the wedding, Bräunchen Moses (""ca."" 1769–1849) was baptized as Johanna Elisabeth Anspachin (the surname was chosen after her birthplace—Anspach). The couple had eight children (three before and five after the wedding), one of whom was Gustav Adolf Grantzow (1811–83)—a solo dancer and ballet master in Berlin, who in 1837 married Katharina Kirchner (1813–73), a nervously beautiful solo dancer from a Munich Catholic family; the second of their four daughters was Oswald Spengler's mother Pauline Grantzow. Like the Grantzows in general, Pauline was of"
"eleven children. Her biological father was Abraham Moses Downs and she traveled often to visit him in Granada, where she first encountered visual arts. She was only able to attend school through the third grade, but was a prolific reader and self-taught. In 1954 Beer moved to the United States, first working at a dry-cleaning business and then as an artist's model in Los Angeles, California at a variety of art schools. Dissatisfied with the work she was able to get, in 1956 she returned to Bluefields, where she raised four children as a single mother. To support her children,"
"appeared on magazine covers, television, and in a documentary of her life. She wrote an autobiography (""My Life's History""), won numerous awards, and was awarded two honorary doctoral degrees. The ""New York Times"" said of her: ""The simple realism, nostalgic atmosphere and luminous color with which Grandma Moses portrayed simple farm life and rural countryside won her a wide following. She was able to capture the excitement of winter's first snow, Thanksgiving preparations and the new, young green of oncoming spring... In person, Grandma Moses charmed wherever she went. A tiny, lively woman with mischievous gray eyes and a quick"