American Folk Art, American Outsider Art and American Self-Taught Art

American Folk, Outsider and Self-Taught Art

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(above: Horace Pippin, The Trial of John Brown, 1942, oil on canvas, De Young Museum. Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons*)

Native Visions: Art by Folks was a 1990 exhibit at the Sheldon Museum of Art which says: "Works in a number of media, including paintings and sculpture, weather vanes, toys, shop or trade signs, hooked rugs, quilts and furniture provide this special glimpse of our cultural heritage. By carefully looking at such objects, the observer can learn how Americans have spent their lives, both at work and play, throughout our history." Viewers may download the exhibition brochure. Accessed 1/17

Old World, New Country: The Art of Joseph Garlock, an exhibit held October 15, 2004 - January 15, 2005 at Intuit: The Center for Intuitive and Outsider Art. Includes exhibit brochure. Accessed February, 2015.

Orange Show Center or Visionary Art website. Accessed August, 2015.

Outliers and American Vanguard Art is a 2018 exhibit at the National Gallery of Art which says: "Outliers and American Vanguard Art is the first major exhibition to explore those key moments in American art history when avant-garde artists and outsiders intersected, and how their interchanges ushered in new paradigms based on inclusion, integration, and assimilation." See press release including thumbnail images, audio from press event and checklist. Accessed 2/18

A Piece of Yourself: Gift Giving in Self-Taught Art is a 2019 exhibit at the American Folk Art Museum which says: "The exhibition explores American self-taught art and gift-giving practices through works selected from the collection of the American Folk Art Museum (AFAM). It features more than forty drawings, paintings, quilts, and sculptures made between the eighteenth and twenty-first centuries." Accessed 9/19

Playing with Design: Gameboards, Art, and Culture is a 2024 exhibit at the American Folk Art Museum which says: "Playing with Design: Gameboards, Art, and Culture, features over 100 handmade gameboards from the exuberant collection of Bruce and Doranna Wendel. The exhibition includes early examples of classic games of Parcheesi, checkers, and chess, as well as hand-painted iterations of Monopoly and Chutes and Ladders made in the United States between the mid-nineteenth and early-twentieth centuries." Accessed 9/24

Purvis Young, Howard Finster, Charley Kinney & Echo McCallister is a 2010 exhibit at the Lehigh University Art Galleries which says: "The term Outsider Art was coined by art critic Roger Cardinal in 1972 as an English synonym for art brut. While Dubuffet's term is quite specific, the English term Outsider Art is often applied more broadly, to include the self-taught, the Naïve, the visionary, the intuitive, the eccentric, the obsessive, the compulsive, as well as categories such as folk art, primitive art, tramp art, and prison art." Accessed 2/19

Ralph Fasanella: Lest We Forget, an exhibit held September 2 - December 1, 2014 at the American Folk Art Museum. Includes a lnk to a page about the Ralph Fasanella Collection and Archive at the American Folk Art Museum. Accessed January, 2014

Ralph Fasanella: Lest We Forget, an exhibit held May 2, 2014 - August 3, 2014 at the Smithsonian American Art Museum. Includes essays by Leslie Umberger and Ron Carver, illustrated checklist, online video and press coverage. Accessed April, 2015.

Rawvision.com article titled "What is Outsider Art" by Franz Gsellmann. Accessed August, 2015.

Red River: The Narrative Works of Edgar Tolson, Carl McKenzie, Earnest Patton, and Donny Tolso is an exhibit catalog available for online viewing at the Kentucky Folk Art Center website on the page "Past Exhibition Catalogs" listed under 2010 catalogs. Accessed April, 2016.

Robert Morgan: The Age of Discovery is an exhibit catalog available for online viewing at the Kentucky Folk Art Center website on the page "Past Exhibition Catalogs" listed under 2011 catalogs. Morgan is a sculptor using found objects. Accessed April, 2016.

The Roots of the Spirit: Lonnie Holley, Mr. Imagination, Charlie Lucas and Kevin Sampson, an exhibit held September 19th - November 26th, 2014 at the Wiegand Gallery at Notre Dame de Namur University. Includes press release and media coverage. Accessed August, 2015.

Self-Taught Genius: Treasures from the American Folk Art Museum, mini-website of nationally touring exhibition from the American Folk Art Museum. Includes related essays. Accessed February, 2016.

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