Grandma Moses: A Good Day’s Work Gallery Talk with Katherine Jentleson and Leslie Umberger

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Thursday, April 23, 2026, 5:30 pm SOLD OUT Join us for a gallery talk to explore themes in the exhibition Grandma Moses: A Good Days Work led by Leslie Umberger, senior curator of folk and self-taught art and Katherine Jentleson, senior curator of American art and the Merrie and Dan Boone Curator of Folk and Self-Taught Art at the High Museum of Art. This talk will delve into Moses's core themes of labor, community, and memory, and the ways in which Moses appealed to the public post-World War II by looking back at a younger, more rural America. Image:Grandma Moses, We Are Resting, 1951, oil on high-density fiberboard, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Gift of the Kallir Family, in Memory of Hildegard Bachert Grandma Moses Properties Co., NY Sponsor: Smithsonian American Art Museum Venue: American Art Museum Event Location: Meet in G Street Lobby Cost: SOLD OUT, Free | Registration encouraged, Get Tickets/Register: events.blackthorn.io... Categories: After Five, Gallery Talks & Tours Related Exhibition: Grandma Moses: A Good Days Work