Grandma Moses was an American folk artist who started painting at 76 after arthritis made embroidery difficult. Her paintings, depicting peasant life, sold for $10 but now sell for $10,000. She won awards and created over 1,000 paintings before passing away at 101. Grandma Moses was born Anna Mary Robertson on September 7, 1860 in […]
Robert Moses, born in 1888 in Connecticut, was a real estate entrepreneur and politician who developed public parks and swimming pools in New York City. He later focused on building freeways and bridges, but his reputation declined due to his exclusion of minorities and neglect of urban transit. He died in 1981. Robert Moses was […]
