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Grandma Moses: A Good Day’s Work Gallery Talk with Katherine Jentleson and Leslie Umberger

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Join us for a gallery talk to explore themes in the exhibition Grandma Moses: A Good Day's Work led by Leslie Umberger, senior curator of folk and self-taught art and Katherine Jentleson, senior curator of American art and the Merrie and Dan Boone Curator of Folk and Self-Taught Art at the High Museum of Art. This talk will delve into Moses’s core themes of labor, community, and memory, and the ways in which Moses appealed to the public post-World War II by looking back at a younger, more rural America. 

Tickets available March 23.

Image: Grandma Moses, We Are Resting, 1951, oil on high-density fiberboard, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Gift of the Kallir Family, in Memory of Hildegard Bachert © Grandma Moses Properties Co., NY 

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Interior gallery of the Smithsonian American Art Museum with columns, paintings on the walls, and a large neon map installation
The nation’s first collection of American art offers an unparalleled record of the American experience, capturing the aspirations, character and imagination of the American people throughout three centuries.
Location
Washington, DC
11:30 a.m. to 7 p.m. daily