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this week in outsider art features a brilliant german masterpiece, a horse quilt and a cutout cardboard horse, plus help for a tattoo artist and family if you have the means

Mar 16, 2025

THIS WEEK IN OUTSIDER ART

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**FRIEDRICH SCHRODER-SONNENSTERN** Moon Prisoners (1955) // Colored pencil and crayon on board; 29 × 20 in. (73.66 × 50.8 cm) via *Milwaukee Art Museum*

**RITA MAE PETTWAY** "Housetop" variation (2016) // Cotton; 89 x 89 inches via *Souls Grown Deep Foundation*

**MAMIE DESCHILLIE** Horse with Bird (date unknown) // Cardboard cutout; 22 inches in length and 19 inches wide via *Toh-Atin Gallery*

**ARTIST UNKNOWN** Figure group, skeletons in procession wearing black suits (c. 1950; Puebla, Mexico) // Ceramic, paint;15 3/4 × 6 11/16 × 7 1/2 in. (40 × 17 × 19 cm) via *Museum of International Folk Art*

**MARVIN BAILEY** Eyeball Jug (c. 21st Century) // Ceramic jug with blue glaze; 15"H via *Invaluable*

**JOSÉ GUADALUPE POSADA** A Girl with Two Faces, 1930 reprint of a ca. 1892 engraving via *Public Domain Review*

**SARAH LEE** A surprise visit from mother (2025) // Acrylic on wood — *Original work of art featured at the 2025 Outsider Art Fair in New York City. This work is unframed measuring 16.5 inches x 11.7 inches. (available for purchase)*

**VICTOR DUENA** Lady with Two Dogs (1964) // Oil on paper; 13 x 16" via *American Folk Art Museum*

**MAKER UNKNOWN** Gravestone of Joseph Tapping (c. 1678; Boston, Massachusetts) via An Armchair Academic (photo by David Diaz)

**UNKNOWN ARTIST** Pithora Painting (Painted by Tribal Men of the Rathwa Tribe of India) (date unknown) // Acrylic on Canvas; 37 x 52 in via *Wilsonville Outsider Art*

**MARIA PRYMACHENKO** I was spinning on the spinning wheel (1982) via *Tortoise*

**ESTEBAN WHITESIDE** Pass the Culture (2024) // Acrylic and wood on wood — *Original work of art featured at the 2025 Outsider Art Fair in New York City. This work is ready to hang and measures 14 inches x 14 inches (available for purchase)*

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**NIL & KARIN ROMANO** Rage (2024) // Acrylic on paper courtesy *the artists*

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IF YOU CAN HELP…

While there I a lot of shitty things going on in the world, and a lot of people need our help. Today I would like to ask you to help Buffalo, New York area tattoo artist Scott Sonner who is currently battling terminal stage 4 stomach cancer.

If you have the means, his family could use your help and you can help support them as they manage medical bills and day to day living as Scott is undergoing treatment at Roswell Park Comprehensive Cancer Center.

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Please don’t forget that whether you’re male, female, non-binary, trans, gay, straight, white, black, brown, citizen, immigrant, christian, jewish, muslim, buddhist, atheist or any citizen of this world trying to figure out this life — you matter and we care about you. If there is ever anything we can do to help please reach out. If there’s anything we can do to try and help let us know.

SHOUT OUT

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Shout out to Picnic Studio a progressive art space for adults with intellectual and developmental disabilities in Pasadena, California.

Our art studio and gallery will be a shared space, functioning like an artist residency program while also hosting exhibitions, poetry readings, movie nights, and more. Picnic Studio will be an inclusive space where we can build a stronger community—something that is imperative in today’s world.⁣

Can’t wait to see all the amazing things they do!

FROM THE COLLECTIVE

**NOEL HATFIELD** War Is Hell (2024) // Oil paint on archival dibond aluminum and sealed with gamvar gloss varnish, handmade frame; 16 inches x 20 inches (framed: 18.5 inches x 22.5 inches) — *available for purchase via the artist in the FolkArtwork Collective shop*

NOEL HATFIELD is a seventy-three-year-old self-taught artist from Winterset, Iowa. Working in oil paint on stretched canvas or dibond aluminum, Noel paints in several styles, including Abstract, Expressionist, and Impasto, with a knife and brush. When he is not painting, he’s usually taking care of his adorable grandchildren.

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