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...famous Collyer brothers, who in 1947 were found dead in a junk-filled house in uptown Manhattan). Why, asks Author Davenport, did devoted brothers of good family and good education die in squalor and madness when they had scads of money in the bank? The answer: Momism. Old Grandma Holt dominated her married son, his gentle wife and their two young sons. Just as daddy is about to break from the Milquetoast mold, he is kicked in the head by a horse and killed. By the time the boys are freed by Grandma's own death...
...pictures on the spot, urged him to come back in six months with more work. Last week, just two weeks before his 28th birthday, the gallery displayed 44 of Jack's paintings on its swank walls, and hailed him as England's first 20th century primitive, a "Grandma Moses in embryo." In contrast to Grandma Moses' lovingly literal rendition of a world she knows, Taylor paints a world of dreams far from the squalor and drabness of the London slums he lives in. His landscapes are bright with unlikely color, his figures dressed in gay costumes...
...Troy, N.Y., members of Russell Sage College's Class of '49 made amends to the world's spryest primitive painter, Grandma Moses, 93. Grandma had got an honorary Doctor of Humane Letters degree from the girls' school in 1949. Her cap and gown were lent to her for the occasion, and recently Grandma complained in TIME (Dec. 28): "They didn't let me keep the cap." After reading TIME'S story, the Sage girls got busy and arranged for Grandma to come to their fifth reunion, where she was pictured admiring her appearance topped...
...Grandma Moses is a great, even a fabulous personality. Just look at that life beaming from your cover portrait. But her paintings are trash. The boys in the galleries are having great fun cashing in on a lucky winner, while the "discriminating" collectors have nothing to lose but a few greenbacks for the ride. She is a sweet old lady, as you say, whom "no one could possibly have invtented" therefore that much more have in commercializable on a jaded, novelty-hungry public...
...Grandma Moses has done much to bring good art into our national life ; she dispeis the myth that art is the province 01 the wealthy and the eccentric - it belongs to all of us. Perhaps her greatest contribution is to show the value of creating. Although un trained, Grandma Moses has no need for numbered paints, but rather, paints what she feels . . . She serves as an inspiration in this age of tension and fear...