Thanksgiving Turkey is a 1943 oil painting by the American outsider painter Grandma Moses, produced at age 83 and signed "Moses". It has been in the collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art since 1950.[1]
| Thanksgiving Turkey | |
|---|---|
| Artist | Grandma Moses |
| Year | 1943 |
| Medium | Oil paint, wood |
| Dimensions | 38.4 cm (15.1 in) × 48.6 cm (19.1 in) |
| Location | Metropolitan Museum of Art |
| Owner | Mary Stillman Harkness  |
| Accession No. | 50.145.375 |
| Identifiers | The Met object ID: 19301 |
It shows a scene of the artist's impression of catching a Thanksgiving turkey, a subject she returned to many times in her career as an artist of "old timey" subjects. It was often in demand as a variation on her popular theme of "over the river to grandma's house", which was generally a scene of figures in a horse-drawn sleigh crossing a stream. The figures are in the snow by a shed trying to catch a turkey.[2]
See also
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edit- ^ Painting record for 50.145.375, Metropolitan Museum of Art, Bequest of Mary Stillman Harkness, 1950
- ^ Story about the artist painting "Catching the Turkey"
- Image of the painting in the 1975 abridged version of Otto Kallir's 1973 catalogue raisonné
- Otto Kallir, Grandma Moses, Complete edition, New York, Harry N. Abrams, 1973, cat. nr. 293 p. 292, plate 49, Grandma Moses record book nr. 458 .