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Sugaring Off (Grandma Moses)

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season with people busy at various tasks, set in a typical Moses winter setting. The figures are getting ready to pour sryup on snow for children, take empty buckets to hang on taps driven into maple trees, or carry full buckets with a yoke towards a bonfire to boil the sap down into syrup, known as
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sugaring off. The subject of this painting had been a recurring theme since 1939 and became a bestseller for the artist.
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91.4 cm × 114.3 cm (36.0 in × 45.0 in)
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Grandma Moses
outsider
Grandma Moses
Christie's
maple syrup
Cole Porter
Cy Feuer
Galerie St. Etienne


Lot 139
Story about a sugaring off painting
"Sugaring Off, 30 November 2006, lot number 139"
Sugaring Off
artnet
Otto Kallir
Grandma Moses record book
Categories
Paintings by Grandma Moses
1943 paintings

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