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ANNA MARY ROBERTSON 'GRANDMA' MOSES (1860-1961)
Lot 68 Property from a New York Private Collection

ANNA MARY ROBERTSON 'GRANDMA' MOSES (1860-1961)

That a Fine Turkey

Closed19 January 2022

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ANNA MARY ROBERTSON 'GRANDMA' MOSES (1860-1961)
That a Fine Turkey
signed 'Moses.' (lower right)—dated 'Nov 17. 1943.,' inscribed with title and numbered '507.' (on a label affixed to the reverse)
oil and glitter on masonite
9 1⁄2 x 14 in. (24 x 35.5 cm.)
Painted in 1943.

Doyle, New York, 20 May 2008, lot 2318.
Acquired by the present owner from the above.

Specialist note

Grandma Moses painted the theme of Thanksgiving repeatedly in her work, focusing on rural traditions like catching the turkey as seen in the present work. She wrote, "Why do we think we must have turkey for thankgiven. Just becaus our Forefathers did, they had it becaus turkeys were plentyfull, and they did not have other kinds of meat, now we have abundance of other kinds of luxuries, Poor Turkey, He has but one life to give this country." (O. Kallir, Grandma Moses: American Primitive, New York, 1946, n.p.)