Miss Alice, as she was referred to by her friends and admirers, was a self-taught idyllic folk  artist, who began painting at age 65 to maintain her sanity while caring for her Alzheimer-afflicted mother. This is being written by her son Tim Moseley, an antique collector and part-time antique dealer for over 30 years. Back around 1970, I was going to the flea market in Nashville, Tennessee and talked my mom into taking her paintings. She reluctantly agreed. I rented her a stall and helped her hang the first 30 paintings that she had painted. I then resumed my search for antique bargains. When I returned  an hour later, Mom was in an empty stall holding a $1,350 check. " He bought them all, he bought them all," Mom excitedly told me.  A  Mr. Barr from Kentucky had indeed bought them all for $45 apiece. That was the day when Alice  Moseley, retired schoolteacher, became Alice Moseley "Professional Artist".

(PICTURE- Alice Showing Off Her Pretty White Dress) Since her flea market days, Alice Moseley has received critical acclaim from art critics and art collectors, nationwide. Articles about Miss Alice and her work have appeared in Southern Living magazine, Travel and Leisure magazine,Coastal Living  magazine and many others. In 2003 and 2004,Janie O'Keefe and Chris Snyder produced a video entitled, "Hello, I'm Alice Moseley." The video has Miss Alice laughing and telling the funny stories that have made visits with her, so enjoyable, for so many people.

PICTURE- (Baby Alice, her Mom and a donkey?)    When my mom died on July 9,2004, at age 94, she had  set up the Museum as her gift to the state of Mississippi with the proviso that  it be acknowledged that Alice Moseley was a very progressive  person who wanted viewers of her work, to know that her paintings were not painted to glorify old days and ways, but  were her tribute to those people, black and white, who kept their sense of humor,their music, their zest for life and their dignity in spite of the oppressive nature of life for most  Mississippians in the 1930's,1940's and 1950's.

PICTURE- ( New Mom Alice with the writer, and my Aunt Marie)    " I don't want a lot of bawling and wailing about my passing," she would say," but I would like to be remembered." In this regard, my mom's friends and I have established the Alice Moseley Folk Art and Antique Museum. We want her new friends to become aware of Alice Moseley, her art and her spirit. The museum is discussed in the "Alice Moseley Museum" section of this website. My mom worked so very hard to plan the museum and to complete  the video  that I like to think of her as still here and still in charge. As my mom liked to say in her later years,"I may be old, but I'm not stupid." She most certainly was not. We want this website and the museum to be, as much as possible, a fulfilment of her ideas. Alice Moseley was, in addition to her creativity, a very smart woman, a great salesman and a great businesswoman.

PICTURE- (Alice with her beloved beagle, Herman)       "I want people to know I'm not just some little old lady with a part-time hobby," she would tell her visitors.  Alice Moseley worked hard to not let memories of earlier times pass. Good things do last when Miss Alice painted them, and perhaps, we can use her example to live more in harmony and have fewer of the bad things in the future.