Most people will rest and relax when they are old. They do not work. And most people are certainly not famous. But Grandma Moses is different. She started a new job at the age of 70.
This is her story. She was born in a poor farmer's family in 1860. Her parents named her Anna Mary Robertson. She married Thomas Moses in 1887. He was a farm worker.
In 1930, Anna Mary Moses was 70, and was a grandmother. She began to paint pictures. She drew paintings of country life. One day, her daughter took her paintings to a store in town. Her paintings were put in the window. A man from New York saw them and bought them. And he wanted more!
The man liked Grandma Moses's paintings. He wanted to help her. So he took her paintings to galleries (美术馆) in New York City. Otto Kallir had a famous gallery there. He liked the paintings. When it was 1940 and Grandma Moses' paintings were in Kallir's gallery. She was 80 years old.
Grandma Moses suddenly became famous. Everyone wanted her paintings. So she painted more and more. She won many prizes for her paintings. She became famous in the United States and Europe.
When she was 100 years old, the State of New York made her birthday "Grandma Moses' Day". After her 100th birthday, she painted 6 more paintings. She died at the age of 101 and a lot of people think she is amazing.
