By: Neil Eskelin
At the age of eighty, a farmer's wife in Cambridge,
Virginia, suffered from painful arthritis. The mother of
ten children and many grandchildren--and great-
grandchildren--loved to do needlework, but her fingers
could no longer manipulate the large needle to embroider.
The elderly woman looked for something else that would
keep her occupied, and found she could hold a small
paintbrush much easier than a needle. So she tried her hand
at painting. She thought her farm and country scenes were
good enough to show at the Cambridge Fair, but she only won
prizes for her jams and canned fruit. There were no blue
ribbons for her art.
Then one day an art collector from New York City was
traveling through the village and noticed several of her
paintings for sale in a local drug store. When he showed
them to his friends in the art circles of Manhattan, they
were more than curious.
Soon, 'Grandma Moses' gained an international reputation.
Her widely-collected works of art were featured on
calendars, greeting cards and in exhibitions in leading
galleries, including the Modern Museum of Art in New York.
Even more amazing, 25% of her 1,500 popular paintings were
done after she was 100 years old!
What masterpieces do you have waiting within you?
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