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Home > Illustrations > Cairo

Cairo

By Grandma Moses (Anna Mary Robertson Moses) | Created: 1933

Cairo
Medium
  • Wool and Silk
Support
  • Canvas
Illustration Size
  • 8 x 10 inches
Collection
  • Bennington Museum

©Grandma Moses Properties, New York

Gift of Mrs. Zoeanna Koloseus and Mrs. Frances Ludowieg.

First woolwork picture made by Grandma Moses, in 1933. Picture of white domed building with columns with Venetian gondola in foreground and trees in back. On back in Grandma's handwriting, "Cairo, for Zoean" (sic). https://bennington.pastperfectonline.com/webobject/205053DB-4539-4D61-A13E-106180349470

Image from: https://bennington.pastperfectonline.com/webobject/205053DB-4539-4D61-A13E-106180349470

Genres
  • Decorative & Applied Illustration
  • Magazine
  • Product Illustration
  • Greeting Cards
  • Outer Space
  • Technology
Global Perspectives
  • North America
Related Time Periods
  • The Decade 1930-1940 The Decade 1930-1940

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