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Kedzie Avenue Gems
Kedzie Avenue is one of my favorite Chicago streets. It runs the length of the city and far south to 206th Street in Olympia Fields. It’s got a great name, for an early real estate developer. And of course there is a lot of fine signage along the way.
Continue readingReview: Louis Wain’s Cats
Louis Wain would have been important if he had only been the greatest master ever of cute and anthropomorphic felinity, which, around the turn of the 20th Century, he was. His images of kitties were cranked out and reproduced in vast numbers, creating an inexhaustible reservoir of catty charm. Wain would have been important if he were only known for the increasingly bizarre and (before the term was coined) psychedelic cat images he produced toward the end of his life while institutionalized as a schizophrenic. And Wain would have been fascinating if only for the ceramic cats he designed in
Continue readingShort Review: George E. Ohr: The Greatest Art Potter on Earth
It’s hard to call Ohr’s pottery anything other than magnificent, and this book has a ton of beautiful images. The strength of his work is such that it is not overpowered by his story, which is saying a lot. Ohr cultivated eccentricity. His biography is uniquely entertaining, and the story of his work and its reception — in his own time and its rediscovery long after his death — is endlessly fascinating. The writing occasionally comes off as a bit too jolly, but I understand the temptation presented by Ohr’s own ebullience. Overall the text is engaging and authoritative.
Continue readingAs seen on TV
I am so ready for dinner. I’ll take my veggetti in a bacon bowl please, with stuffed eggwich on the side, just like I seen on TV.
Continue readingB.F. Perkins and Jimmy Lee Sudduth
Two fine artists: B.F. Perkins and Jimmy Lee Sudduth at Perkins’ environment in Bankston, Alabama. Sudduth gave me this Polaroid in 1990 or thereabouts, along with directions to Perkins’ place. Sudduth was a genius with mud. Perkins’ environment was continuous with his art. He repeated himself, but his best themes, like the “Cherokee Lovebirds,” were quite nice.
Continue readingScenes From A Bottle Cap Inn
Enjoy this group of press photos (and two snapshots) of Miami’s fabulous Bottle Cap Inn. The press photos are circa 1940. I’ve also got a collection of Bottle Cap Inn vintage postcards.
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Continue readingOutsider Art for Sale — Intuit’s Collect-o-rama
See a sample of art I will be selling at Intuit’s Collect-o-rama event, Saturday, October 25, 2014, 10 to 4 at Stanton Park in Chicago, 618 W. Scott St. There is a preview the night before, 6-9. I’ll have more outsider, folk and vernacular art material, as will other sellers. Typically, there is a ton of interesting work at very affordable prices.
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