He believed the choice of works in the 1940 exhibition "included many of her early attempts in which her great talent was scarcely recognizable.
"[1] Kallir decided to make a catalog based on Grandma Moses' own words on the occasion of her 85th birthday in 1945.
He chose to add "American Primitive" to the title and gave the work the subtitle "Forty paintings with comments by Grandma Moses - together with her life's history".
"[1] Louis Bromfield wrote the introduction, and Hildegard Bachert transcribed interviews with the artist to develop an ego-document that could be illustrated with a selection of paintings that reflected events and scenes from her life.
These were the first published color illustrations of Grandma Moses paintings and they proved so popular that Kallir first registered her paintings with the Copyright Office in Washington and then arranged for large, higher quality prints that were published in 1948 to accommodate demand.