true love will find you in the end

this week in outsider art also some incredible featured artists, a mini-preview of the outsider art fair, works by ron rodriguez and sam doyle, and a hooked rug tribute

Jan 28, 2024

THIS WEEK IN OUTSIDER ART

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**MIKKI ITZIGSOHN** Songwriters #6 (2023) // Acrylic on wood; 24in x 30in courtesy *the artist*

**Rick Fleming’s** Daniel Johnston "True love will find you in the end" painting on Vinyl part of SAGE Studio’s LOVERBOY exhibit

**Sergei Kulakov**, Adult and children figurine c. 1990 -1996, (Europe, Russia, Karelia) Wood; 5 1/2 × 2 3/8 × 2 3/16 in. (14 × 6 × 5.5 cm) via Museum of International Folk Art

**Ron Rodriguez** / Bobcat; Wood, paint, plastic, metal, wood splinters, marbles (c. 1995) via *Museum of International Folk Art*

**CHRISTINA BROWN** Hooked Rug of one of Leo Naugler's paintings (date unknown) // Cloth; 16.5" x 12" approx. via *Black Sheep Gallery*

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**AUGUST NATTERER** My Eyes in the Time of Apparition (1913)

**OSCAR DE MEJO** Noah's Ark (1988) // Acrylic on canvas; 23 × 18 in. (58.42 × 45.72 cm) via *Milwaukee Art Museum*

**JESSE AARON** Untitled (c. 1970) // Wood, cast resin, and nails; 32 x 23.75 x 2.5 inches via *Souls Grown Deep Foundation*

**SAM DOYLE** Dump Sir (c. 1982/85) // Enamel on Tin; 37 X 27 IN (93.9 X 68.6 CM) via *Gallery of Everything*

**MAX RAFFLER** Self-Portrait (ca. 1975) // Watercolor and pencil on paper; 14 × 14 in. (35.56 × 35.56 cm) via *Milwaukee Art*

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**ANONYMOUS** Painted Wood Casket (pre 18th century) // Italian wood and tempera polychrome nuptial coffer; W. 24.75 in; H. 7.875 in; D. 7.875 in via *L' Antiquaire & The Connoisseur, Inc.*

**NANCY JOSEPHSON** What I Carry (c. 2020) via *Lindsay Gallery*

**DWIGHT RUBY** Untitled (date unknown) // Coloured inks; 14 x 11 inches via Henry Boxer Gallery

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FEATURED ARTIST OF THE WEEK

**CAROL BARROSO** The Foreigner (2024) // Oil on board courtesy *the artist*

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WATCHING AND READING

Here are a few things I’ve been reading this past week:

Gee’s Bend at Target: Store launches line of clothing, home goods linked to quilters
The Wondrous Story of Emery Blagdon’s Healing Machine
You Saw Jason Kelce. This Guy Saw 'The Feast of Bacchus.'
- Shout out to ‘Art But Make it Sports’, and if you aren’t following them yet, check ‘em out!

Here are a few things I’ve been watching this past week:

OH WORD?

The Outsider Art Fair is one month away. One of my favorite weekends of the year, it is in my opinion, one of the best art fairs in the country. With over sixty exhibitors and hundreds of pieces of art, it’s quite hard to preview and pick a few favorites. But here we go anyway!

I may be a bit bias considering she is a fellow Iowan, but Sherry Pardee will be presenting The Pardee Collection again this year, and I’m more than excited. Featuring works by the one and only Emitty Hych and Jim Work among others, Sherry’s booth last year was a highlight of the fair and I can’t wait to see what she has again this year.

And I can’t wait to look through those brilliant Emitte Hych works up close and personal.

A little preview of the artists to see:

Emitte Hych (1909-2009) spent the first thirty years of his life living in rural Mississippi. As a young man he worked as a share cropper picking cotton. Times were tough for African-Americans in the 1940's so Emitte moved up North to join a sister. Emitte was able to get a job as a cook-chef and still takes pride in his cooking today,"I ain't scared to get in the kitchen with no woman!" Emitte's drawings and paintings are of simple whimiscal scenes of people, snakes, elephants and imaginary plants.

Jim Work (1945-2022) liked to draw the vernacular architecture of the midwest: water towers, two story brick buildings, barns, and wind mills. He then colored them inwith crayon and uses popsicle sticks as his straight edge. Once he had colored his buildings he rubbed the surface with the side of his popsicle stick to smooth it out. The effect of this technique transformed ordinary crayon into a lustrous surface. Jim was developmentally disabled and autistic. Most of his buildings came from his imagination, yet reflect the common structures of small towns in the midwest.

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SHOUT OUT

To my photography students for the pretty rad William Hawkins inspired painted frames they made this week in class. Any chance I have to talk to my students about William Hawkins you know I will!

Hawkins (1895–1990) was a slef-taught artist whose work began receiving acclaim in the 1980s after winning first prize at the Ohio State Fair. A handyman who worked odds and ends jobs, he frequently used a variety of media, including discarded materials, to create his paintings. Nearly everyone one of his works created a geometric border with multiple colors in his signature, “William Hawkins Born KY July 27 1895”.

FOUR YEARS AGO TODAY…

A favorite from the beginning, Clementine Hunter’s melrose plantation quilt always brings a smile to my face.

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