The desire to find yourself in your youth and build a career in your youth is completely justified. After all, this requires time and effort. But there are exceptions in this regard. And so successful that they remain in history. 
In 1860, a girl was born in one of the small towns of New York state. Anna Mary Robertson showed a passion for drawing from an early age. But there was no opportunity to realize it. Due to extreme need, the girl was forced to go to work as a servant for wealthy neighbors when she was barely 11 years old. Anna learned to read and write at a rural school. Education ended with reading and writing. 
At the age of 27, she married a simple worker, Thomas Moses. Through hard work, the couple was able to earn money for the farm. The days passed in constant work - cultivating the land, caring for animals, raising children (5 out of 10 survived). Thomas died in 1927. And Anna Moses retired. The woman’s age was approaching 70, and hard physical labor had left its mark on her capabilities.
The woman became interested in needlework, so as not to sit idle, she knitted and embroidered a lot. But in the end, she lost her last outlet due to arthritis. When her stiff fingers could no longer hold the needle and knitting needles, she decided to replace the tool with a brush - she remembered her childhood hobby. 
The simple pastoral sketches that came out of Anna’s brush were close and understandable to those around her. A simple landscape, a cozy house, snow-capped mountains. The artist gave her works to her family and neighbors, who were close and understanding of her work.
Some paintings were even sold at the fair, where the woman took her pickles. As a result, the right hand completely refused to serve its owner. But Anna did not give up and took the brush to her left.
One of Moses’ paintings was accidentally seen in a pharmacy in the town of Hoosick Falls by collector Louis J. Kaldor. He found out the author's address, went to Anna and purchased several paintings. At the same time promising to make her famous.
Kaldor kept his promise. The public of the New York gallery appreciated the naive and touching paintings with a huge amount of details, into the world of which you want to immerse yourself and stay.
In 1941, the elderly lady received a state award, and a few years later a state award, from the hands of President Truman. She has traveled almost the whole country with exhibitions. And she even made the cover of Time when she was already over 90 years old.
During her long creative life, the artist, whom her admirers affectionately nicknamed Grandma Moses, created about 2 thousand works. The direction of primitivism suited her perfectly due to the lack of narrow frameworks.
And Moses was able to fulfill her childhood dream at an advanced age, leaving her descendants with touching paintings that contain something of patchwork, Pieter Bruegel and childhood memories.
Grandma Moses passed away in 1961 at the respectable age of 101 years.
