b-b-bonus this week in outsider art // january thirty-first
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FIND OF THE WEEK
As one does, I was scrolling through the lots at an upcoming Canadian folk art auction (sheesh 18-year-old me would be so confused) and came across some really impressive hooked rugs. I’m a sucker for hooked rugs, as you’ll see at the bottom of this newsletter in my personal collection, and every time I lay my eyes on a new to me rug, I want to make it mine. And that’s the story for this really special World War I commemorative rug.
A dramatic commemorative hooked rug with great colour and composition having a red cross flanked by two flags and a row of flowers below. At the top is a scene with trees and a sun while the other three sides have a checkered border.
It is has tremendous color and imagerty, it has a remarkable backstory and it is gorgeous. Who is going to add it to their collection could it be me?! I sure do hope so but I don’t even have Canadian money.
Miller & Miller Auctions is having a two day Canadian antique and folk art sale February 10th and 11th, best of luck to you all.
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Yesterday marked 129 years to the day of the birth of one of the greatest self-taught artists who ever walked this earth, Martín Ramírez. Born on January 30th, 1895 in Mexico, Ramírez left his homeland looking for work to help support his family, only never to return, becoming unhoused and eventually being institutionalized in California mental hospitals and diagnosed as a catatonic schizophrenic.
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