Description
Image: Bennington, 1953
Anna Mary Robertson “Grandma” Moses (1860-1961)
Oil on pressed board
Copyright © 2016, Grandma Moses Properties Co., New York
Grandma Moses: The Bennington Connection
virtual presention by Jane Kallir
Although Anna Mary Robertson (“Grandma”) Moses lived in Eagle Bridge, NY, Bennington was her local museum. In the 1960s, the Bennington Museum mounted three hugely successful Moses exhibitions, which prompted them to install a permanent gallery devoted to the artist’s work. In 1973, the museum annexed the one-room schoolhouse attended by Moses, supplementing her art with memorabilia provided by her family.
Jane Kallir’s talk examines Moses’s ties to the local community, the evolution of the Moses gallery at the Bennington Museum, and her and her family’s role in promoting the artist.
About the Presenter:
Jane Kallir. Photograph: © Julienne Schaer
Kallir is Director of the Galerie St. Etienne and President of the Kallir Research Institute, both in New York City. The gallery, founded by Jane’s grandfather, Otto Kallir, gave Grandma Moses her first show in 1940. The Kallir Research Institute is a non-profit foundation dedicated to furthering Otto Kallir’s scholarship. It is presently in the process of updating the Grandma Moses catalogue raisonné, which it plans to publish online. Jane Kallir has authored four books on Grandma Moses and curated Moses exhibitions for over two dozen museums in the US and Japan.
