Anna Mary Robertson was born September 7, 1860 on a farm in Greenwich, Washington County, N.Y.. Her ancestors were from Scotland and Ireland and came to America between 1740 and 1830. They settled in Southern Washington County, NY. Anna Mary was a hired girl at the farm of Mr. and Mrs. Sylvester James. She did house work and took care of the children and the handicapped wife of the farmer.

On November 9, 1887, Anna Mary Robertson married Thomas Salmon Moses. She met Thomas at the James farm where he was a hired hand. After their marriage, they moved to Staunton, VA where they farmed until moving back to Eagle Bridge, NY in 1905.

Grandma Moses began painting in her seventies. In 1938, at the age of 78, she had several of her paintings exhibited in Thomas' Drug Store in Hoosick Falls. This is currently the space of Upsy Daisy and Bagels and More. Mr. Louis J. Caldor, a New York city engineer and art collector saw and bought the paintings. In the fall of 1939 three of her paintings were on display at the Museum of Modern Art in an exhibit called "Contemporary Unknown American Painters." In 1940, Grandma Moses had her first solo exhibition in the Galerie St. Etienne.

Grandma Moses died at the age of 101 on December 13, 1961. She is buried in Maple Grove Cemetery. Her inscription reads, "Her primitive paintings captured the spirit and preserved the scene of a vanishing countryside."

Source of historic text: Grandma Moses: My Life's History. Edited by Otto Kallir. Harper, NY.1952.