00:00In 1938, a 78-year-old American widow named Anna Mary Robertson Moses was living on a small farm
00:06in upstate New York. She had spent her entire life as a farmer's wife. She had raised five
00:11children. Her husband had died. She was getting older. Her hands had become stiff from arthritis.
00:17She could no longer do her favorite activity, embroidery. So she picked up a paintbrush instead.
00:22She had never painted before. She painted simple, vivid scenes of farm life, quilting parties,
00:28sleigh rides, children playing in fields. She gave the paintings to her family or sold them at the
00:34local drugstore for two or three dollars each. In 1939, an art collector from New York City was
00:39driving through her town, stopped at the drugstore, and saw her paintings on the wall. He bought all
00:45of them on the spot. He took them back to Manhattan and showed them to art dealers. They scheduled an
00:50exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art. By 1946, Anna Mary, now known to the world as Grandma Moses,
00:57was a national celebrity at age 86. President Eisenhower commissioned a painting from her.
01:03Time magazine put her on the cover. She painted over 1,500 works in her lifetime. She lived to 101.
01:10Her paintings now sell for over a million dollars each. The grandmother who started painting at 78
01:16because of arthritis became one of the most famous artists in American history.
01:20Your hobbies aren't too late. Sometimes they're exactly on time.
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