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A primitive artist is an amateur whose work sells.

Grandma Moses

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Grandma Moses
Age: 101 †
Born: 1860
Born: September 7
Died: 1961
Died: December 13
Artist
Embroiderer
Illustrator
Painter
Washington County
New York
Anna Mary Robertson Moses
Anna Mary Robertson
Artistic
Sells
Whose
Artist
Work
Amateur
Primitive

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Life is what you make it.
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