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Today's featured artist is Nick named Grandma Moses Born in Greenwich New York in 1860, Anna Mary Robertson. She was known for here naive paintings, or folk painter. They remind me of folk art today.
http://www.britannica.com/EBchec…/topic/393588/Grandma-Moses

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