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Watching snow on television is about as close as I care to come to the white stuff. Of course, snow isn't white at all. If we take a look at a snowflake under the microscope, you'll see that it's clear. So why then does snow appear white? The reason is, that when sunlight strikes that snowy scene on Christmas morning, it is reflected and refracted off the infinite crystalline facets. The different wavelengths that make up white light separate into the different colors of the spectrum due to refraction but then reflect back, recombining to create a white winter wonderland.
After having grown up shoveling snow in the brutally cold Chicago winters, I'm okay with just a trace of the clear stuff every fifty years or so. Stay warm and Happy Holidays!
- Goodyear Mayor Joe Pizillo and the Artist
I also want to thank all those who stopped by the booth at the recent Kierland Art and Wine Festival and the Litchfield Park Arts Festival. And finally, to those who braved the elements at the unseasonably wet and cold Tempe Festival of the Arts, my humble thanks. The weather may have been miserable but the show was great!
-Tempe Festival of the Arts 2022
Anna's paintings eventually found a home at the local drug store, where they collected dust for the better two years, until Louis Caldor seeking relief for a stomach ache, stopped by the store. Caldor, a New York City inventor and part-time art collector, saw Anna's paintings and was smitten. He bought all she had on exhibit and, after arranging to meet with Anna the next day, bought up her remaining inventory.
Caldor soon found a gallery in New York City that agreed to a one-woman exhibition of Anna's work. Her paintings were a huge hit. The press dubbed her "Grandma Moses," and Anna, now 78 years old, was about to put it into another gear. Grandma Moses' bucolic scenes of rural life and holiday festivities had struck a nostalgic chord in a world still reeling from WWII. She displayed a keen eye for the beauty of nature and a deep appreciation for the comfort of home and community, and the power of tradition.
She went on to produce over 2000 paintings during the next 21 years, arthritis and all. She appeared on television, on the cover of Vogue and Time magazines, and exhibited in galleries and museums worldwide. Hallmark was to print over 50 million Christmas cards featuring her winter scenes during her lifetime.
Like so many artists before and after her, Grandma Moses had to overcome disability and a lack of both artistic opportunity and acceptance. When she passed away in 1961 at the age of 101, she had left an endearing legacy, not only of her art but of her tenacity and optimism.
Time Magazine -December 28, 1953
“I look back on my life like a good day's work, it was done and I feel satisfied with it. I was happy and contented, I knew nothing better and made the best out of what life offered. And life is what we make it, always has been, always will be.” - Grandma Moses
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