Showing posts with label Outsider Art. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Outsider Art. Show all posts

Moses Ogden New York Folk Art Sculpture Outsider Art Real Photo Postcard dated 1916

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A truly extraordinary Real Photo Post Card of the Moses Ogden folk art environment dated 1916. Turned up by Natalie Curley. I was hoping th...

African-American Yard Show Folk Art in the Black Eden Idlewild, Michigan Black History 1915 RPPC Collection Jim Linderman

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Dated 1915 (which makes it likely one of the earliest photos of an African-American Yard Show) this scarce RPPC comes from Idlewild, Michig...

Folk Art Pole full of Cowboy Culture.

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Early snapshot of an unusual pole full of cowboy carvings! Unknown location Collection Jim Linderman
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Cleo Crawford. Obscure African-American painter

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A great, forgotten painting by African-American artist Cleo Crawford executed in 1938. Crawford lived in Haverstraw, New York. He unfortun...

Burl Wood "Sculptures" from the Stump House Folk Art Environment RPPC

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Two of my favorite Real Photo Postcards. From the defunct "Stump House" environment which burned up sometime around the early 19...

Why would the Outsider Artist Justin McCarthy sign a painting as by Rubens ?

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A cruise ship lounger on deck with a bright red sunburned face. But why would Justin McCarthy sign a painting as by "Rubens" Jus...

Cedar Creek Charlie Fields Folk Art Sculptures from a long lost folk art environment and the book by Elinor Lander Horwitz Contemporary American Folk Artists

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Three remaining folk art sculptures made by Cedar Creek Charlie. There aren't too many of them around. Of course, Mr. Fields is one of...

Black Jesus Last Supper Outsider Art collection Jim Linderman

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Black Jesus Outsider Art. The Last Supper, mid 20th Century. Signed by RAY (unknown)said to be from Virginia. Collection Jim Linderman /...

Nyla Gladine Thompson (1927-1969) Texas Outsider Art by a Polio Victim The Landscape Paintings Collection Jim Linderman

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Nyla Gladine Thompson was 9 years old when began to suffer infantile paralysis. She began painting at age 13 with a brush held in her mout...

Untitled (Man with a Beef) original 35mm photograph c. 1990 by Jim Linderman

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Untitled (Man with a Beef) original 35mm photograph c. 1990 by Jim Linderman

19th Century Folk Art Outsider Art Drawing on Flattened Prang Christmas Card Box Man, Woman, Horse

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A sketch on a c.1890 flattened box reeking of age and creativity! Drawn on a Prang Christmas card box. Any school art teacher knows of Pran...

Rare Photographs of Justin McCarthy and Elijah Pierce 1972 at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts Two Man Show

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I was surprised to come across a group of photographs of the outsider art masters Justin McCarthy and Elijah Pierce taken at their two-man ...

Art Brut from Detroit Michigan Sam Mackey

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The little known work of Sam Mackey is shown here from several institutional collections. Mr. Macky was the grandfather of Tyree Guyton, c...

Blanch Ackers African-American Artist from Arkansas, Michigan.

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Blanch Ackers moved from Arkansas to near Detroit, Michigan in 1943. In 1985 she found employment in a Foster Grandparent program and was ...

Outsider Art from The Seaside Psychiatric Hospital in Waterford Ct circa 1950-1970

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Tempura or watercolor paintings on paper said to have been produced by a patient at the now abandoned Seaside psychiatric hospital in Water...

A curious Folk Art Watercolor Painting c. 1900 Collection Jim Linderman

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A curious Folk Art Watercolor Painting c. 1900, likely from Pennsylvania. On scrap paperfound in a scrap book. Anonymous. Collection Jim ...

African-American Yard Show Outsider Art Folk Art Environment Assemblage Art Alabama c. 1993

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Original photographs of a previously undocumented African-American Yard Show taken in the early 1990's by Mary Klein and Jim Linderman...

Caroline Goe Missing NYC Street Artist and Outsider Art collection Jim Linderman

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There are plenty of mysteries and coincidences in the world of Outsider Art. I can add these four pieces to the mystery of lost New Yo...