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Checkered House (Grandma Moses)

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97: 96: 86:, a landmark dating from the Revolutionary War period. The figures in period costume are coming and going by horseback. It was a recurring theme she painted, remarking “The Checkered House is old... It was the Headquarters of 90:
in the revolution war, and afterwards he used it as a Hospital, then it was a stopping place for the stage, where they changed horses every two miles."'
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This painting was a newer version of one of three sent by the artist to an exhibition in May 1941 in the Syracuse Museum of Art (today the
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Old postcard of the Checkered House in Cambridge, NY, painted with checkers in 1853 and burned 7 February 1907
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91.4 cm × 114.3 cm (36.0 in × 45.0 in)
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It shows a scene of the artist's impression of the Checkered House in
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in the 1975 abridged version of Otto Kallir's 1973 catalogue raisonné
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Story the artist told about the 1941 Syracuse exhibition
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Grandma Moses
outsider
Grandma Moses
Sotheby's
Cambridge, New York
General Baum
Old postcard of the Checkered House in Cambridge, NY, painted with checkers in 1853 and burned 7 February 1907
Everson Museum of Art
Thomas J. Watson
Armonk, New York
The Old Checkered House, 1853
Galerie St. Etienne
Lot 92
The Checkered House
Grandma Moses American Primitive
Story the artist told about the 1941 Syracuse exhibition
Image of the painting
"Checkered House |"
Otto Kallir
Categories
Paintings by Grandma Moses
1943 paintings

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