The Hunters

The Hunters
The Hunters
(American, 1860-1961)

The Hunters

Date1946
Mediumoil on board
Dimensionsoverall: 19 3/4 x 24 3/4 in. (50.2 x 62.9 cm) frame: 23 1/2 × 27 1/2 × 2 1/2 in. (59.7 × 69.9 × 6.4 cm)
ClassificationPAINTINGS
Credit LineSBMA, Gift of Margaret P. Mallory
Object number1991.154.24
Subject(s)
  • landscape
  • animal
Collection
  • Contemporary
On View
Not on view
Label TextEntirely self-taught, Grandma Moses became a minor celebrity in 1940 when she was given her first one-woman exhibition in a New York gallery. It was upon the occasion of this turning point in her accidental career as an artist that she was dubbed ‘Grandma Moses’ for the piquancy of her charmingly naïve depictions of American rural life. Robertson (her real sir name) was already in her 70s when she went from farmer’s wife to artist. The ideological needs created by the Great War likely had much to do with her powerful, home-grown appeal. This is a typical work, in which Robertson’s original skill in needlepoint is evident in the miniaturist precision of her description of evergreen foliage. She often copied elements from reproductive lithographs, popularly produced by Currier & Ives, and was inspired by song lyrics to imagine wholesome scenes of American farm life, often set well in the past.
Bringing in the Yule Log
Grandma MOSES
1949
Untitled (LAL)
Ed MOSES
1985
Hunters in a Forest Scene
Arthur Burdett FROST I
ca. 1895
Triptych
Richard L. SEARS
ca. 1952-1953
Football Painting #2
Theophilus BROWN
1956
Man With Microphone
Howard WARSHAW
1958
Interior
Charles MCCALL
1950s
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