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MERRY CHRISTMAS

BILL TRAYLOR Running Deer (1939-1942) via Christies

ANNA MOND In Nativitate Domini (2022) via the artist

WILLIAM HAWKINS Nativity Collage (1989) // Enamel on masonite with collage via Minneapolis Institute of Art

CLEMENTINE HUNTER Untitled (Magi Bearing Gifts) (ca. 1970-1980) // Paint on an albany slip whiskey jug via Smithsonian American Art Museum

GRANDMA MOSES Christmas (1958) via Smithsonian American Art Museum

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FEATURE OF THE WEEK

SARAH LEE who killed cock robin? (2022) // Acrylic on paper courtesy the artist
 

THIS WEEK IN OUTSIDER ART

MARIA PRYMACHENKO Peacock on the meadow wild girl on the birch (c. 1986) // Paper, gouache h/t Mutual Art

MINNIE EVANS Oil on canvas with collage (1959) // Oil on canvas with collage via American Folk Art Museum

MARLENE BENNETT JONES Everything (2009) // Cotton, sateen, and velveteen; 63.5 x 53 inches via Souls Grown Deep Foundation

MARTÍN RAMÍREZ Dragon Train (date unknown) // Wax crayon, graphite, colored pencil, and water-based paint on pieced papers (with collaged printed newsprint) via Philadelphia Museum of Art

JANET SOBEL Untitled ((c. 1943) // Oil on board via Gallery of Everything

HAPPENINGS

NEW YORK 

• American Folk Art Museum: Morris Hirshfield Rediscovered // Sept 23 – Jan 29
• Cavin-Morris Gallery: Swallowing The Ocean, Internalizing The Sea: New Paintings By Izabella Ortiz // Nov 10 – Jan 28
• Ricco/Maresca Gallery: UN/RELATED: Christine Hughes, Kate Berry Brown, Lisa Ivory // Dec 08 – Feb 18
• Andrew Edlin Gallery: Secret Chord: An Ode to Montreal // Dec 10 – Jan 28
• Brooklyn Museum: Really Free: The Radical Art of Nellie Mae Rowe // Sept 02 – Jan 01

CHICAGO

• Intuit Art Center: Creative Growth Art Center: Selections from the Collection // Dec 09 – Jan 29
• Hanna Pietri Gallery presents Maurice Sullins // Online
• Carl Hammer Gallery: Mary Lou Zelazny: Whistling In The Dark // Oct 28 – Dec 30
• Project Onward: The “Art on Cardboard” Show! // In-Person & Online

​PHILADELPHIA

• Indigo Arts Gallery: Mithila: Evolution of a Women’s Art in India and Nepal // Sept 29 – Jan 25
• Fleisher/Ollman Gallery: Leigh Bowery & A Bottle of 7Up // Nov 17 – Jan 07

NEW MEXICO

• Museum of International Folk Art: Yōkai: Ghosts & Demons of Japan + Fashioning Identities: A Companion to Dressing with Purpose and more! // Now Open

TEXAS

• SAGE Studio: Top Ten 2022 – An Annual Print Show // Online and In-Person
• Webb Gallery Waxahachie: Nobody’s Ark (Pt. 1) with Panacea Theriac // Nov 06 – Jan 22
  • ​Garden Party: Paintings & Cut-Outs by Jackie Dunn Smith and Decanters by Adam Shrewsbury at Webb’s Fair & Square in Fort Davis

WISCONSIN

• John Michael Kohler Arts Center: Creative! Growth! // May 21 – May 19
• Milwaukee Art Museum: Playing Favorites: Spotlight on the Petullo Collection // Oct 08 – Apr 02

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STAY TUNED…

Coming Soon: The most popular works posted from 2022…

#10 – Bill Traylor
#9 – Royal Robertson
#8 – Maria Prymachenko
and more…

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