We have 8, of the original 16-piece set, of the first-ever released Grandma Moses Christmas Cards, from 1946.
"In November 1944 Kallir and Story signed a contract with Moses, agreeing to jointly and exclusively represent her. The arrangement not only guaranteed the artist a steady source of income and freed her from the demands of sometimes capricious individual customers, but, most important, it gave her consistent and coherent management. The events that established Grandma Moses’s reputation nationally, and then internationally, followed in relatively quick succession. Kallir immediately launched a traveling exhibition program that over the course of the next two decades brought Moses’s work to more than thirty U.S. states, ten European nations and finally, in a Cold-War-era triumph, Moscow. In 1946 the first Grandma Moses Christmas cards and the first monograph, Grandma Moses: American Primitive, were published. Both enterprises proved so successful than in 1947 Hallmark took over the greeting card license, and Doubleday reissued the book in a larger print-run."
The title of the cards are;
The Old Skating Pond
Over The River To Grandma's House
Out For The Christmas Tree
Christmas On The Farm
Sugaring Off
Hoodsick Falls In Winter
Moonlight In Winter
A Frosty Christmas MorningThis is an exciting, and incredible, opportunity, especially for a Vintage Christmas Card Collector, or Grandma Moses fan.
The card are in good shape, the envelopes, not so good, but, then again, you will, most likely, want to frame these, as oposed to mailing them out - This is a true, collectible item.
You can research yourself, and you'll be hard-pressed to find Original 1946 Grandma Moses Christmas Cards anywhere around.
Selling as Set-Only - Serious buyers only
(13909 Antiques also has a small supply of 1950 Famous Artist Studios Christmas Cards)
And here's another Christmas Tune to get your chestnuts roasting
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