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Exercise 3

Add commas only where needed.

1. Not all artists who become famous have spent years studying.
2. Anna Robertson Moses who was also known as Grandma Moses is considered the Grande Dame of U.S. art.
3. Grandma Moses who started painting when she was seventy-six never had an art lesson.
4. Her realistic and simple scenes depicting American rural life have been praised by critics and spectators alike.
5. These colorful pictures which are called “primitives” are based on her early life in rural New York.
6. She began to paint at a time when her arthritis made her pastime of embroidering too painful.
7. This energetic woman who lived to be 101 continued to create works of wonder and charm until shortly before her death.
8. Grandma Moses who painted without any formal training remains one of the twentieth century’s most famous primitive artists.

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