Country Fair (Grandma Moses) Explained

Country Fair
Artist:Grandma Moses
Medium:oil on canvas
Height Metric:88.9
Width Metric:114.3
Museum:private collection

Country Fair is a 1950 oil painting by the American outsider painter Grandma Moses, produced at age 89 and signed "Moses". It was sold at Sotheby's in 2009 for US$1,082,500.[1]

It shows a scene of the artist's impression of a country fair, set in a typical Moses summer setting. The figures are coming and going in all manner of horse-drawn vehicles and taking part in various activities such as horse and cattle judging, buggy racing, and eating in a temporary festival tent. The central figure is a balloon man. It was one of the last large paintings she painted.[2]

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  1. https://www.sothebys.com/en/auctions/ecatalogue/2009/american-paintings-drawings-sculpture-n08555/lot.47.html Lot 47
  2. https://archive.org/details/grandmamoses0000kall/page/128/mode/1up Story about the strain of painting large format paintings