Grandma Moses
Copyright Michael D. Robbins 2005
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Grandma Moses—American Painter
September 7,
1860, Greenwich, NY, 4:00 PM, LMT (Source: Church of Light), or 3:38 PM,
LMT (Source: LMR cites Tucker who quotes her in Research Quarterly (Volume
4, 1961). Died at 101 Robertson on December 13, 1961, Hoosick Falls, NY,
USA.
(Ascendant, Capricorn: Sun in Virgo; Mercury conjunct Saturn in Virgo;
Moon conjunct Uranus in Gemini; Venus and Jupiter in Leo; Mars rising
in Capricorn; Neptune in Pisces; Pluto in Taurus).
Beginning her career as a painter relatively late in life, Grandma Moses
went on to become one of America’s best known and beloved artists. Her
paintings are, in a way, part of the “American Primitive” tradition; the
kinds of skills acquired in art school—perspective, proportion, realistic
shading, etc.—are not the emphasis among such painters. Instead, an almost
child-like representation of familiar country scenes is to be found.
She painted with a naïve literalism (Virgo, Saturn/Mercury) which is part of the great charm of her works. Great attention was lavished upon the minute and particular. A love of the tiny object, the tiny detail correlates with the strength of Virgo and the seventh ray in combination. Capricorn on the Ascendant reinforces the seventh ray.
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