Wash Day (Grandma Moses)
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ArtistGrandma Moses
Year1945
MediumOil paint, composition board
Dimensions45.7 cm (18.0 in) × 59.7 cm (23.5 in)
| Wash Day | |
|---|---|
| Artist | Grandma Moses |
| Year | 1945 |
| Medium | Oil paint, composition board |
| Dimensions | 45.7 cm (18.0 in) × 59.7 cm (23.5 in) |
| Location | Rhode Island School of Design Museum |
| Accession no. | 46.342  |
Wash Day is a 1945 oil painting by the American outsider painter Grandma Moses, produced at age 85 and signed "Moses". It has been in the collection of the Rhode Island School of Design Museum since 1946.[1]
It shows a scene of the artist's impression of a wash day, with a clothes line flapping in the wind before a house with people gathered around a well with large wash tubs.