Belvedere

A self-taught artist, Moses began her career in the late 1930s, when she was in her seventies. Born in Greenwich, New York, she settled with her husband in Virginia, where they lived for eighteen years before returning to upstate New York in 1905. A lifelong farmer, Moses was renowned for her depictions of rural American life. She adopted a naive, so-called primitive style that is evocative of both nineteenth-century "folk" painting and twentieth-century modernism. This panoramic landscape depicts Belvedere, a plantation located in Virginia’s Shenandoah Valley, a subject the artist frequently painted from memory.