Hoosick Falls in Winter (Grandma Moses)

Hoosick Falls in Winter
Artist	Grandma Moses
Year	1944
Medium	Oil paint, hardboard
Dimensions	50.165 cm (19.750 in) × 60.325 cm (23.750 in)
Location	The Phillips Collection
Accession No.	1392

Hoosick Falls in Winter is a 1944 oil painting by the American outsider painter Grandma Moses, produced at age 84 and signed "Moses". It has been in the collection of The Phillips Collection since 1949.^[1]

It shows a scene of the artist's impression of a train crossing the Hoosic River, with figures in the village of Hoosick Falls, New York watching in a peaceful winter landscape.

This painting was one of forty selected for her to tell her story in her own words in the book Grandma Moses American Primitive: "The Hill lands of the Hoosick River were the hunting grounds of the Mohicans..."^[2]

See also

• Galerie St. Etienne

References

1. Painting record for 1392, The Phillips Collection
2. Grandma Goes to the City, Grandma Moses with Otto Kallir, Grandma Moses, American primitive - forty paintings with comments by Grandma Moses, together with her life's history, 1946

• Image of the painting in the 1975 abridged version of Otto Kallir's 1973 catalogue raisonné
• Otto Kallir, Grandma Moses, Complete edition, New York, Harry N. Abrams, 1973, cat. nr. 425 p. 295, plate 216, Grandma Moses record book nr. 810 .