Bear Paw Meanderings

It is September and that is the birthday of America’s famous painter, Grandma Moses.

She came from a very large Vermont family and had ten children herself. She worked and worked and worked and when she was in her 60’s or 70’s and her fingers would not work well enough for quilting and such, she took up painting, mainly water colors. Her subject matter was what was happening around her in her beloved Vermont Mountains.

She was called a primitive painter or of the rustic genre and her paintings were sort of primitive but they were full of people doing various things, lots of action and she pain...