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Grandma Moses

1860 - 1961

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Anna Mary Robertson Moses (September 7, 1860 – December 13, 1961), or Grandma Moses, was an American folk artist. She began painting in earnest at the age of 78 and is a prominent example of a newly successful art career at an advanced age. Moses gained popularity during the 1950s, having been featured on a cover of Time Magazine in 1953. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Grandma Moses has received more than 1,470,045 page views. Her biography is available in 29 different languages on Wikipedia. Grandma Moses is the 950th most popular painter (down from 381st in 2019), the 3,118th most popular biography from United States (down from 1,290th in 2019) and the 34th most popular American Painter.

Memorability Metrics

  • 1.5M

    Page Views (PV)

  • 54.60

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 29

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 3.29

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.84

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among PAINTERS

Among painters, Grandma Moses ranks 950 out of 2,023. Before her are Dirck Hals, Hans Thoma, Ibn al-Bawwab, Simon de Vlieger, Cornelis Norbertus Gijsbrechts, and Cornelis Engebrechtsz.. After her are Matthew Paris, Kanō Eitoku, Mario Merz, Allaert van Everdingen, Wilhelm von Kaulbach, and Allan Kaprow.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1860, Grandma Moses ranks 67. Before her are Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Katō Takaaki, Simon Dubnow, Karel Kramář, William Bates, and Paul Ulrich Villard. After her are Paul Gustav Fischer, Albert Kahn, Eugen Goldstein, Hugo Preuß, Manuel Teixeira Gomes, and Carl Anton Larsen. Among people deceased in 1961, Grandma Moses ranks 56. Before her are Anna May Wong, Henri Breuil, Robert Garrett, Maya Deren, Paul Ramadier, and Seyyed Hossein Borujerdi. After her are Thomas Beecham, Vanessa Bell, Luke Voyno-Yasenetsky, Charles D. B. King, Vladimir Sofronitsky, and Domenico Tardini.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Grandma Moses ranks 3,118 out of 20,380. Before her are Jedediah Smith (1799), Sun Ra (1914), Carmen Electra (1972), Harry Harlow (1905), Eric Stoltz (1961), and Carla Gugino (1971). After her are Leon Czolgosz (1873), Maila Nurmi (1922), Curtis Hanson (1945), Ernest King (1878), Sandra Dee (1942), and Mary-Louise Parker (1964).

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Among PAINTERS In United States

Among painters born in United States, Grandma Moses ranks 34. Before her are Asher Brown Durand (1796), Andrew Wyeth (1917), Helen Frankenthaler (1928), Beatrice Wood (1893), Henry Hill (1943), and Gutzon Borglum (1867). After her are Allan Kaprow (1927), Will Sampson (1933), James Turrell (1943), Lee Krasner (1908), Sanford Robinson Gifford (1823), and Winslow Homer (1836).

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