Masterpiece: Checkered House in Winter Artist: Grandma Moses (1860-1961) Concept: Collage Lesson: A Village in Winter Objectives: To create a snowy village scene using students drawings. Materials: White paper, approx. 9 x 12, one for each student, Crayons Glue sticks or white glue Scissors Cotton balls for snow or clouds Red and Blue one inch squares for border around their artwork. Please Note: You may want to mount the artist s blurb to the back of their artwork ahead of time since it may have cotton on it and will not lay flat when complete. Process: 1. Look at the Grandma Moses painting The Checkered House in winter. Look at the patterns and colors used on the house, people, horses, and trees. 2. Have the students glue a blue and red one inch border around the perimeter of their white drawing paper by alternating colors red and blue. See step one. 3. Then have them pretend they live in a house in the country in the winter. Ask them to think about how their house will look, and then draw it on a piece of paper with crayons. 4. You can add trees, people, animals, but remember its winter, so no grass! (And don t draw the sky or the sun!) 5. Color your winter house scene in with crayons. See Step Two. 6. Use the cotton for snow around their scene. See Step Three 7. Parent helpers: Since this is our last project, hanging it is optional If you do, you can take the finished scenes and arrange them on the butcher paper to look like a village. You and your students can add a road, a sky
with clouds, a forest, a snowman, or whatever you wish to the scene. Glue cotton balls on to look like snow or clouds if you like. Be creative! 8. Hang your masterpiece in the hallway and enjoy! Optional depending on when your class is scheduled to present.
KINDERGARTEN PROJECT #7 Artist: Grandma Moses Masterpiece: Checkered House in Winter Lesson: Landscape Scene Project Samples:
Art Masterpiece Checkered House in Winter Anna Mary Robertson Moses Grandma Moses (1860-1961) Anna Mary Robertson Moses, better known as Grandma Moses, grew up on a farm in the state of New York. After she married, she and her husband owned a farm in Virginia. It wasn t until her husband died when she was 66 that Grandma Moses started painting to help pass the time. She was known as a folk artist and her first show in New York was titled What a Farmwife Painted. She made 26 paintings after the age of 100 and died in 1961 at the age of 101. Today in Art Masterpiece we talked about the terms folk art and perspective as we created a village scene using students drawings and paper as a collage winter scene. Art Masterpiece Checkered House in Winter Anna Mary Robertson Moses Grandma Moses (1860-1961) Anna Mary Robertson Moses, better known as Grandma Moses, grew up on a farm in the state of New York. After she married, she and her husband owned a farm in Virginia. It wasn t until her husband died when she was 66 that Grandma Moses started painting to help pass the time. She was known as a folk artist and her first show in New York was titled What a Farmwife Painted. She made 26 paintings after the age of 100 and died in 1961 at the age of 101. Today in Art Masterpiece we talked about the terms folk art and perspective as we created a village scene using students drawings and paper as a collage winter scene.
ANNA MARY ROBERTSON MOSES (Grandma Moses) 1860-1961 Anna Mary was born on a farm in Greenwich, New York, on September 7, 1860, just as the U.S. was entering the Civil War. She grew up with her nine brothers and sisters and did a great deal of work on the farm. When she was 12 she left the family farm to earn a living being a hired hand. When she was 26 and working at a farm, she met her husband-to-be, Thomas Moses, who was also a hired hand on the farm. After they were married, they rented a farm in Virginia. During this time of her life, she didn t have any time to paint. There was so much work to do on the farm and also she raised five children. The butter Mary made on the farm for her family was so good they decided to try and sell it at a local store. It became so popular that Mary started churning 160 pounds of butter a day by hand! Mary and her husband became very successful farmers. Mary s husband died of a heart-attack in 1927. So, alone at 66 she decided to start painting to help pass the time. But, it wasn t until she was 80 that she started painting seriously. Grandma Moses was called a folk artist. She became famous for documenting rural life in the late 19 th century. She painted the surrounding countryside of her childhood farm and painted scenes showing us the changing seasons. When she had done quite a few paintings, her son brought them to a local Pharmacy/Drug Store to display them in the window for sale. One day an art collector from New York City named Louis J. Caldor saw the paintings. He bought all of her paintings and inquired about getting more of them. He was given the directions to Grandma Moses house, and upon meeting her, bought all of the paintings she had on hand. He took them back with him to New York and started showing them to several art museums. One gallery decided to have an exhibit of her work, and they called it What a Farmwife Painted. This was in 1940 when Grandma Moses was 80. After this showing she became very famous and won many awards for her art. She painted 26 paintings after the age of 100, but after that she grew very tired and was put into a nursing home where she died on December 13, 1961 at the age of 101.