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Showing posts with label Asa Moore. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Asa Moore. Show all posts
Erotic Folk / Outsider Art by Asa "ACE" Moore circa 1935 Early Visions of Black Sexuality
Asa "Ace" Moore African-American outsider artist who created erotic and sexual works in ink and pencil during the 1930s. Certainly in private. Personal visions of his own, and produced during a time when even African-American's questioned their own beauty. As such, these are likely among the earliest depictions of sexuality and eroticism by a Black artist in the United States. It took as long as 1974 for Vogue Magazine to put an African-American model on their cover, and even Hefner resisted until 1971. Racism was so extreme and brutal in the 1930s, images of Black sexuality were virtually unknown. In 1968, when James Brown sang "Say it Loud, I'm Black and Proud" he was literally convincing his own race of their worth...and that was 30 years after these drawings were created. Some are far too risque to allow here...but Mr. Moore created at least 38 works. Some appear on the Museum of Uncut Funk site HERE
Drawings by Asa "Ace" Moore circa 1935 Collection Jim Linderman
Outsider Art Fair Post In Absentee Asa Moore Drawings
Because it is Outsider Art Fair weekend, and I would be there except I moved...It is a nice day to show a few pieces by Asa Moore, circa 1935. He qualifies. Click to Enlarge.
Three works on pencil by Asa Moore, circa 1935 Collection Jim Linderman
Fantasy Drawings by African-American Artist Asa "Ace" Moore collection Jim Linderman
All Original Drawings circa 1935 collection Jim Linderman
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Asa "Ace" Moore African-American artist from Ohio Black Folk Art Circa 1935 Collection Jim Linderman
A group of the
recently discovered erotic fantasy comic illustrations by Asa "Ace" Moore,
African-American from Ohio, circa 1935. First time ever shown! Share them around the joint,
Comic-Con Folks!
All Original Drawings collection Jim Linderman
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