Grandma Moses Dead at 101
Dec. 13, 1961 - Grandma Moses, who became one of the country’s most famous painters in her late seventies, died in Hoosick Falls, N.Y., today at the age of 101. Her physician, Dr. Clayton E. Shaw, said she had died of hardening of the arteries, but the best way to describe the cause of death, he suggested, was to say “she just wore out.” She created her first picture when she was 76 years old. She took up painting because arthritis had crippled her hands so that she could no
