Grandma moses gathered her sources for the vignettes and figural groupings of her painting mcdonnell farm from
great masters
stories told by others
popular media
her imagination

Popular media

McDonell Farm is a painting by Grandma Moses. She was inspired by the nursery rhyme "Old MacDonald Had a Farm." Moses gathered her sources from popular media, such as magazine illustrations, greeting cards and advertisements. She traced the contours of figures and buildings and incorporated them into her compositions. The painting was purchased by Duncan Phillips.

the crusades are one of the most significant events in the history of europe and the middle east.   they were a series of religious wars carried out by christian crusaders from europe during the timeframe of the middle ages.   beginning in 1095 ce, the crusades saw european knights and noblemen travel to the middle east in an attempt to capture the holy land away from muslim people that had controlled the region for the previous centuries.   the term crusade means ‘cross’.   therefore, the europeans that became crusaders viewed themselves as ‘taking up the cross’.   in fact, many of the crusaders wore crosses on their clothing and armor as they made their pilgrimage to the holy land.

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