Checkered House is a 1943 oil painting by the American outsider painter Grandma Moses, produced at age 83 and signed "Moses".
[1] It shows a scene of the artist's impression of the Checkered House in Cambridge, New York, a landmark dating from the Revolutionary War period.
It was a recurring theme she painted, remarking “The Checkered House is old...
It was the Headquarters of General Baum in the revolution war, and afterwards he used it as a Hospital, then it was a stopping place for the stage, where they changed horses every two miles.
"'[2] This painting was a newer version of one of three sent by the artist to an exhibition in May 1941 in the Syracuse Museum of Art (today the Everson Museum of Art).