Vermont’s Green Mountains resemble scenes from folk artist Grandma Moses’ nostalgic paintings of rural life.
Moses’ American primitive, self-taught style of oil painting often depicted the seasons and sights of her youth in the rolling mountain range of New York and Vermont.
The Green Mountains in which she lived are still dotted with red barns, horses and cows, horseback riders, white church steeples, smoke rising from house chimneys, apple orchards, and covered bridges, which are among the subjects of her paintings.
In her 70s, Anna Mary Robertson Moses switched, due to arthritis, from embroidering to painting her own creations depicting farm life. She continued to paint until her death in 1961 at the age of 101 years, according to the National Museum of Women in the Arts.
The landscapes and vivid fall foliage that inspired Moses, as shown by the photo gallery, continue to capture the interest of both artists and tourists.
Vermont boasts being the state with the most and best maple tree colors. Tourists must think so, too, as they spend approximately $460 million (or 25 percent of annual tourism revenue) in just one month to see the landscape with its autumn colors, according to the Vermont Department of Tourism and Marketing.
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