GRANDMA MOSES BOXED NOTECARD ASSORTMENT

$19.95 at Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art.

With her artistic eye and homespun optimism, Anna Mary Robertson “Grandma” Moses showed the world what it meant to find color and joy in the everyday. A self-taught artist, she took up painting late in life, after needlework became too much for her arthritic hands. Her captivating folk art depictions of rural America hit home, recalling simple pleasures and ordinary life on the farm—sugaring off, the coming of spring, autumn pumpkin harvests. Long before her death at 101, she had become known as “the nation’s…