These pictures are her life. They are not an aesthetic experience. They are what she knew and what was in her whole being you can get to know Grandma Moses to through her writing as well as her painting one. Well known quotes as I look back on my life like a good days work it was done and I feel satisfied with it. I was happy and contented. I knew nothing better and made the most of what life offered and life is what we make it always has been always will be you know, I love Grandma Moses. I knew her very well and Grandma Moses had it all in her head. She would never sit and paint outdoors. She sat on her chair by in the room behind the kitchen and all these things. She could evoke out of her memory, which is so rich, you know and so somehowAs she painted she would tell the story or she would say here. I'll put a tree it has to balance with this house. So she was an artist without having any idea that she was and for her painting with a Pastime but for us, I think it's important and it's marvelous that Grandma Moses existed. What was it like to know Grandma Moses? What kind of things did she talk about to you? She was at ease with everybody whether it was the president of the United States or or a child or anyone that would come in the house. She would sit in her two, very small, you know, very short and very frail looking she would sit and she would extend her hand and she would say welcome and how are you and would ask you questions about your family and your home and how did you leave him or her home? She knew and always inDidn't what was bothering you perhaps and very intelligent excellent memory almost to the end very funny always on top of any situation very good subject for interviews usually turned it around and interviewed. You never talk about the good old days or did she just paint about them a lot and she taught me many things about life in the country that I who am a city person didn't know about candle making about how to make butter and she had such a descriptive way so that you could almost see what it was like in those days like a painter. She would also talk like a painter and explain the details off of everything.Describe patterns and colors and and where things were as you know, very realistically one thing she was not was not sentimental only the people that see her Things become Sentimental Over them. We do don't we we do we have the stigma style Jaffe The Good Life gone by the simple days. Yes, but I think some of our young people recapture the mood and perhaps they find their way back to some of the simple things that our generation has lost. I'm watching I hope soSure seem to depict and idyllic simple way of life and one gets confused thinking that those were the good old days but there were many hardships in these scenes with Grandma Moses depicts, but you never see the hard part of it. That was her conviction. She wanted a picture to be pretty what's the use of painting a picture if it isn't something pretty that's what she said and the hardships of which she knew plenty in her long life. They are reserved for living but things should be beautiful and of course life also is beautiful in many ways and she wanted only the beautiful parts to be shown.Her personality of course is reflected in these pictures. It was positive on Waze and perhaps I should say something about her style of painting. It was really impressionistic. As far as landscape is concerned and only the people are primitive so that there is a style that's all Grandma Moses his own and no painter to my knowledge has been able to succeed in that way and that's why they don't really look primitive because the landscape is is not in there is quite a bit of perspective in all over these pictures. Although we think of them when we talk about Grandma Moses as telling us about people and how they live.It's really the scenery the summer and the winter that is predominant and the people are very small against the landscape. Absolutely that is very true. And when you ever dry if you've ever driven through New England where she lived you you just say, it's Grandma Moses country to Grandma Moses with love Hildegard Bach heard from the galerie st. Etienne speaking in Minneapolis at a special holiday exhibition on the paintings of Grandma Moses. I'm Connie Goldman.