COLUMBUS - For Carl Moses, “Grandma Moses” was more than an affectionate nickname for the famed American folk artist.

        Anna Mary Robertson Moses actually was his grandmother.

        Carl Moses, of Eagle Bridge, N.Y., visited an exhibit of her paintings Saturday at the Columbus Museum of Art.

        “It makes you feel very proud,” he said of his family connection.

        The trip marked the second time Mr. Moses, 82, and his wife, Shirley, 81, have seen the exhibit during its six-city tour of the United States.

        The couple, both retired farmers, still live in Eagle Bridge, the village that inspired Grandma Moses to paint a piece of fireboard in 1918, when she was in her mid-50s. That painting began a career that made her famous worldwide by her death at age 101 in 1962.

        Carl Moses' father was one of 10 children of Grandma Moses and her husband, Thomas Salmon Moses.

        As a young man, Carl sometimes watched as his grandmother painted works ranging from harvest scenes to burning bridges.

        It wasn't unusual for her to send him to a nearby train station with an armful of paintings bound for New York City.

        But as she rose to fame, he was so busy farming he said he never thought much about her talent.

        Mr. Moses and his wife traveled to Washington last summer for the exhibit's opening at the National Museum of Women in the Arts.

        Drawn from public and private collections in the United States and Japan, the exhibit features 87 of Grandma Moses' works.

        After Columbus, it will move on to Portland, Ore., for the final showing.

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