Designs on the Heart

The Homemade Art of Grandma Moses

Karal Ann Marling

    To the Reader

    Prologue: Flying Over Quilted Landscapes

    1. The Air Castle Years

    2. The Old Oaken Bucket

    3. Making Soap, Washing Sheep

    4. Sugaring Off

    5. Mother Moses "Discovered"

    6. From Farm Wife to Media Darling

    7. A "Primitive" Artist

    8. Cakes and Cards

    9. G. Moses, Inc.

    10. Grandma Is Very Old

    Epilogue: "Work, For the Night Is Coming"

    Notes

    Illustration Credits

    Index

  • Cover: Designs on the Heart
  • A photo of the author

Author photo by Ashley Wilkes. Jacket image copyright © 2006, Grandma Moses Properties Co., New York.

Karal Ann Marling is Professor of Art History at the University of Minnesota.