Sweet sign of season

“Sugaring Off,’’ painting by Anna Mary Robertson Moses (aka Grandma Moses)(1860-1961), at the Bennington (Vt.) Museum. With global warming, maple-syrup production has tended to come earlier in recent decades, but it might be a tad late this year as this very cold winter eases.

Grandma Moses: Modernist?

"Bennington, 1945'' (oil and tempera on masonite), by Anna Mary Robertson, aka "Grandma" Moses'' (1860-1961), in the show "Grandma Moses: American Modernist,'' through Nov. 5 at the Bennington (Vt.) Museum.

The museum says: "This exhibition has a subversive goal, as it upsets your expectations and gets you to see her work with fresh eyes. By putting her paintings alongside works by Modernists such as Léger, Cornell, Frankenthalerand Warhol, and folk artists Hicks and Pickett, see how all these artists used color, collage, memory and their own artistic sensibility to create original masterpieces.''

Editor's Note: In the 1950s, Grandma Moses, a "primitive'' artist, may have been the most famous painter in America.