As I head to the 30th Annual Outsider Art Fair, I plan on taking in as much artwork as humanly possible. While I will be getting my fill of outsider and self-taught art at the fair, it didn’t stop me from being sure to catch a bit more folk art at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, as well as a few more highlights from their expansive collection. Goya and Nampeyo? Absolutely. Mary Cassatt and Marsden Hartley? Yes, please. El Greco and Degas?! I guess. Artwork currently on view as of March 2022.
Kerry James Marshall, Untitled (Studio), 2014
Ronald Lockett, The Enemy Amongst Us, 1995
Jackson Pollock, Autumn Rhythm (Number 30), 1950
Horace Pippin, Victorian Interior I, 1945
Grandma Moses, Thanksgiving Turkey, 1943
William H. Johnson, Jitterbugs II, ca. 1941
John Kane, The Monongahela River Valley, Pennsylvania, 1931
Joan Miró, Potato, 1928
Marsden Hartley, Portrait of a German Officer, 1914
Gustav Klimt, Mäda Primavesi (1903–2000), 1912–13
Henri Rousseau, The Repast of the Lion, ca. 1907
Mary Cassatt, Young Mother Sewing,1900
John Singer Sargent, Mr. and Mrs. I. N. Phelps Stokes, 1897
Nampeyo, Polacca polychrome water jar, ca. 1895-1900
Vincent van Gogh, Self-Portrait with a Straw Hat, 1887
Georges Seurat, Study for “A Sunday on La Grande Jatte”, 1884
Edgar Degas, The Dance Class, 1874
Eugené Delacroix, The Abduction of Rebecca, 1846
Ammi Phillips, Mrs. Mayer and Daughter, 1835–40
Francisco de Goya, Manuel Osorio Manrique de Zuñiga (1784–1792), 1787–88
Rembrandt, Self-Portrait, 1660
Johannes Vermeer, Young Woman with a Water Pitcher, ca. 1662
El Greco, View of Toledo, ca. 1599–1600
