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Outsider art

 Subject
Subject Source: Sackner Database

Found in 100 Collections and/or Records:

St. Eom in the Land of Pasaquan / Patterson, Tom ; Williams J ; Mendes G ; Russell J ; Manley R ; Finster H., 1987

 Item
Identifier: CC-38713-40623
Scope and Contents

This is the biography and partial autobiography of Eddie Owens Martin later known as St. Eom. For the first 30 years of his life, he was a street hustler and a petty criminal and for last years an outsider artist until he committed suicide. Jonathan Williams, Roger Manley, and Guy Mendes contributed colored photographs of Martin and his artwork that he created for his house in Georgia. St. Eom's style was vividly colored abstractions as well as Buddha-like sculptures. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1987

St. Eom in the Land of Pasaquan / Patterson, Tom ; Williams J ; Mendes G ; Russell J ; Manley R ; Finster H., 1987

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Identifier: CC-38714-40624
Scope and Contents

This is the biography and partial autobiography of Eddie Owens Martin later known as St. Eom. For the first 30 years of his life, he was a street hustler and a petty criminal and for last years an outsider artist until he committed suicide. Jonathan Williams, Roger Manley, and Guy Mendes contributed colored photographs of Martin and his artwork that he created for his house in Georgia. St. Eom's style was vividly colored abstractions as well as Buddha-like sculptures. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1987

The End Is Near!: Visions of Apocalypse Millennium and Utopia / Manley, Roger, editor ; Finster H ; Laffoley P., 1998

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Identifier: CC-31301-32774
Scope and Contents

This extensively illustrated book depicts artworks from the American Visionary Art Museum in Baltimore, Maryland. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1998

The Naive Art of Howard Finster / Finster, Howard., 1987

 Item
Identifier: CC-11378-11594
Scope and Contents

Two essays, "Finster's Fantasies" and "A Preacher-Painter Leads Students to Their Own Artistic Roots" describe the interaction of the unschooled, spiritual artist with students at Lehigh. Four of Finster's pictures are illustrated. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1987

There Is No Escape from Their Different Drummers / Jefferson, Margo; Johnson R., 1999

 Item
Identifier: CC-31806-33324
Scope and Contents

A comparative review of the mail art of Ray Johnson on view at the Whitney Museum of American Art and the folk art of Nellie Mae Rowe at the American Folk Art Museum points out their similarities in wanting "to communicate with a larger world and their urge to stay inside a small one, peopled only by their private thoughts and apparitions." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1999

[ToHo] / Kosek, Zdenek., 1990

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Identifier: CC-55065-438194
Scope and Contents

The photograph by an unknown photographer on the verso of the drawing that depicts lightening strikes relates to Kosek's beliefs of predicting the weather. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1990

Untitled, Monologue Series, 2008

 Item — Oversize folder 41
Identifier: CC-49785-70839
Scope and Contents

The image depicts a profile of a face in its center surrounded by Japanese letterforms. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2008

[Untitled] / Murry, J.B.., 1975

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Identifier: CC-06646-6765
Scope and Contents The drawing is typical of Murry's style, i.e., obsessive calligraphic markings overlaid with abstract colored markings. Murry was born in 1908 and died in 1988. Phyllis Kind Gallery Internet: Born in Sandersville, GA. Having no formal education, J.B. Murry labored from childhood to the age of sixty-five as a tenant farmer in rural Glasock County, Georgia. Murry married Cleo Kitchens in 1929 and with her raised a family of eleven children. At the time of his death Murry had sixteen grandchildren, thirteen great grandchildren, and three great-great-grandchildren. In 1977 Murry, suffering from a hip problem, came under the medical care of Dr. William Rawlings, Jr., who took an interest in his patient's personal as well as physical well-being. Soon after becoming acquainted with Dr. Rawling's, whom Murry described as his "spiritual doctor," Murry had a vision in which he was charged with spreading the word of God through the creation of "spirit-script." After the vision, Murry produced...
Dates: 1975

[Untitled] / Wolfli, Adolf ; Szeemann H., 1976

 Item
Identifier: CC-00460-472
Scope and Contents

Several essays document the working methods and the symbolism employed by the artist. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1976

voyous voyants voyeurs / Trouille, Clovis ; diRosa H ; Nadau JP ; Erro ; Molinier P., 2009

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Identifier: CC-50526-71597
Scope and Contents Camille Clovis Trouille, was born on 24 October 1889, in La Fère, France. He worked as a restorer and decorator of department store mannequins, but is remembered as a Sunday painter who trained at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts of Amiens from 1905 to 1910. He died on 24 September 1975 in Paris. His service in World War I gave him a lifelong hatred of the military, expressed in his first major painting Remembrance (1931). The painting depicts a pair of wraith-like soldiers clutching white rabbits, an airborne female contortionist throwing a handful of medals, and the whole scene being blessed by a cross-dressing cardinal. This contempt for the Church as a corrupt institution provided Trouille with the inspiration for decades of pictorial blasphemies: Dialogue at the Carmel (1944) shows a skull wearing a crown of thorns being used as an ornament. The Mummy shows a mummified woman coming to life as a result of a shaft of light falling on a large bust of Andre Breton. The Magician (1944) has...
Dates: 2009

Young at 60: Paintings, Drawings, Books and Other Objects / Young, Purvis ; Sackner MA ; Sackner RK., 2003

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Identifier: CC-40412-42383
Scope and Contents

The Sackner Archive lent a book to this exhibition. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2003

Zombic Text / Maizels, John., 1994

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Identifier: CC-06534-6653
Scope and Contents

Each print of the edition was handcolored in a slightly different way. The image is wholly untranslatable hieroglyphics. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1994