Hoosick Falls in Winter (Grandma Moses) explained

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Medium:Oil paint, hardboard
Hoosick Falls in Winter
Artist:Grandma Moses

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]

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]

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  1. https://www.phillipscollection.org/grandma-moses Painting record for 1392
  2. https://archive.org/details/grandmamosesamer0000mose/page/95/mode/2up Grandma Goes to the City