The Power and Fluidity of Girlhood in
Henry Darger’s Art
By Leisa Rundquist. 126 pp. incl. 13 b. & w.
ills. (Routledge, Abingdon-on-Thames, 2021),
£44.99. ISBN 978–1–138–31455–9. |
:
Illustrations
Attributed works:
5. a) Are almost murdered themselves though
they fight for their lives typhoon saves them...
b) Vivian girls said Glandelinian tent, by Henry
Darger. Watercolour and pencil on paper, 55.9
by 223.5 cm. (Museum of Modern Art, New
York; Scala Archives).
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Between Worlds: The Art of Bill Traylor
By Leslie Umberger. 448 pp. incl. 244 col. + 61
b. & w. ills. (Smithsonian American Art
Museum, Washington, and Princeton
University Press, Princeton NJ, 2018), 54.
ISBN 978–0–691–18267–4. |
:
Illustrations
Attributed works:
5. Yellow chicken, by Bill Traylor. c.1939–40.
Gouache and pencil on board, 29.2 by 25.4 cm.
(Museum of Modern Art, New York).
Exhibition Review
Madge Gill: Myrninerest William Morris Gallery, London
24. Untitled,
by Madge Gill.
Chinese ink and
coloured pencil
on cardboard,
17.8 by 23 cm.
(Collection
de l’Art Brut,
Lausanne;
photograph
Amélie Blanc;
exh. William
Morris Gallery,
London).
Attributed works:
25. Madge Gill
displays an
untitled piece in
coloured ink on
calico, Plashet
Grove, East
Ham, London.
1947. (Courtesy
Westwood/
Paul Popper/
Popperfoto/
Getty Images).
Attributed works:
26. Newly
discovered
embroideries
by Madge Gill.
2018. (Courtesy
Sophie Dutton;
photograph Kate
Peters).
Attributed works:
27. Untitled,
by Madge Gill.
Cotton, 92 by 78
cm. (Collection
de l’Art Brut,
Lausanne;
photograph Jean
Genoud; exh.
William Morris
Gallery, London).
Exhibition Review
Outliers and American Vanguard Art. Los Angeles County Museum of Art
19. Adelard
the drowned,
master of ‘The
Phantom’, by
Marsden Hartley.
c.1938–39. Board,
71.1 by 55.9 cm.
(Frederick R.
Weisman Art
Museum at
the University
of Minnesota,
Minneapolis;
exh. Los Angeles
County Museum
of Art).
Attributed works:
20. Candy Darling,
by Greer Lankton.
1985. Fabric, wire,
glass, human hair,
acrylic paint,
matte medium,
feathers and
metal, 76.2 by 30.5
by 7.6 cm. (Paul
Monroe; Greer
Lankton Archive
Museum; exh. Los
Angeles County
Museum of Art).
Attributed works:
21. Take my yoke
upon you and
learn of me saith
Jesus, #1,060, by
Howard Finster.
1977–78. Paint
on board with
embossed wood,
44.5 by 122.6 cm.
(High Museum
of Art, Atlanta;
exh. Los Angeles
County Museum
of Art).
Book Review
Nature’s Experiments and the Search for Symbolist Form. By Allison Morehead
40. General view of the Island of Neveranger, by Adolf Wölfli. 1911. Pencil and crayon on newsprint, 99.8 by 71.2 cm. (Adolf-Wölfli-Stiftung, Kunstmuseum Bern; exh. Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin).
Attributed works:
41. The Cancan (La danse du Cancan), by Guillaume Pujolle. 1922. Watercolour on paper, 31 by 23.3 cm. (Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin, on loan from the Musgrave Kinley Outsider Art Collection; exh. Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin).