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American Folk Art from the Volkersz Collection the Fine Arts Center Is an Accredited Member of the American Alliance of Museums Strange and Wonderful American Folk Art from the Volkersz Collection The Fine Arts Center is an accredited member of the American Alliance of Museums. We are proud to be in the company of the most prestigious institutions in the country carrying this important designation and to have been among the first group of 16 museums The Fine Arts Center is an accredited member of the American Alliance of Museums. We are proud to be in the company of the most accredited by the AAM in 1971. prestigious institutions in the country carrying this important designation and to have been among the first group of 16 museums accredited by the AAM in 1971. Copyright© 2013 Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center Copyright © 2013 Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center Library of Congress Cataloguing-in-Publication Data Library of Congress Cataloguing-in-Publication Data Strange and Wonderful: American Folk Art from the Volkersz Collection. Authors: Steve Glueckert; Tom Patterson Charles Bunnell: Rocky Mountain Modern. Authors: Cori Sherman North and Blake Milteer. Editor: Amberle Sherman. ISBN 978-0-916537-16-6 Published on the occasion of the exhibition Strange and Wonderful: American Folk Art from the Volkersz Collection at the Missoula Art 978-0-916537-15-9 Museum, September 22 – December 22, 2013 and the Colorado Spring Fine Arts Center, February 8 - May 18, 2014 Published on the occasion of the exhibition Charles Bunnell: Rocky Mountain Modern at the Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center, Printed by My Favorite Printer June 8 – Sept. 15, 2013 Projected Directed and Curated by Sam Gappmayer Printed by My Favorite Printer Photography for all plates by Tom Ferris. Photography credit for other illustrations as noted. Project directed and curated by Blake Milteer All objects illustrated are from the Volkersz Collection Designed by Serena Wolford Designed by Serena Wolford Photography of works by Clif Hall and Blake Milteer Sponsored at the Missoula Art Museum by Paul G. Allen Family Foundation Sponsored by El Pomar Foundation, Colorado Creative Industries, The Mary K. Chapman Foundation, The Anschutz Foundation, Katherine Loo, Sponsored at the Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center by El Pomar Foundation, The Gazette, KKTV, KRCC and members of the Fine Arts Center The Anschutz Foundation, The Bee Vradenburg Foundation, The Mary K. Chapman Foundation, and Colorado Creative Industries. Cover image: New York, 1955, Oil on canvas, 31 3/4 x 39 3/4 inches, Collection of James and Virginia Moffett Cover Image: Juanita Rogers, Standing Creature, c. 1980, unfired clay, hair, grasses, 10 ¼ x 6 ¾ x 5, photograph by Tom Ferris Table of Contents 4 INTRODUCTION by Willem Volkersz 7 NotES on THE COLLEction by Stephen Glueckert 15 AN EYE FOR THE EXTRAORDINARY: Reflections on a Classic Collection of Contemporary American Folk Art by Tom Patterson 29 PLATES 58 EXHIBITION CHECKLIST Introduction by Willem Volkersz In 1962, when I returned to Seattle after three years the Kansas City Art Institute in 1968, I heard about an in Europe, I resumed my studies at the University of eccentric sign painter in Fulton, Missouri. When I first Washington. Although I had started as an English major visited him, the artist was in his 80s and still working four years earlier, this time I decided to take seriously vigorously on neatly lettered signs of all sizes. Outspoken my longtime interest in art and design. During my high about crooked politicians and injustices he felt were school years, I had worked for one of the leading interior dealt him and others, the signs lashed out against anyone design firms in Seattle and got to meet architects, deserving exposure (even ridicule) and often employed designers and craftsman. Several contemporary artists biblical quotations in support of his judgments and dire who worked at the business became my mentors. So it predictions for mankind. While graphically powerful, it seemed that architecture or interior design might be a is not surprising that his family and neighbors did not good career choice. understand the artist’s “signs and wonders” nor the One day at the School of Art, an instructor took interest taken in his work by visitors. I visited Jesse our class to a lecture room and there, in the darkness, many times (sometimes with my students) and we became showed us slides of the magical Watts Towers, a group of friends. I fondly remember driving him to Kansas City for tall structures built largely from found materials by an his solo exhibition at the Kansas City Art Institute and Italian immigrant in the middle of urban Los Angeles. still feel his hand in mine when I last visited him, just Having grown up in Holland, I had never seen anything before his death at the age of 98. like this and decided to drive to California to see the I have always been a collector. As a boy, I pasted cigar towers in person. bands in composition books and collected coins given In the middle of this Los Angeles neighborhood of to me by foreign visitors to our home in Amsterdam, the modest homes, the towers were hard to miss. Simon Rodia Netherlands (my family emigrated to Seattle in the early had built these structures next to his house on a long, 1950s). As an adult, my interest in collecting turned to triangular lot next to a railroad track and surrounded art. By coincidence, my serious interest in collecting folk them with an undulating concrete wall decorated with art began at a time when the United States celebrated its glass shards and pieces of broken ceramics. Although the bicentennial in 1976; as part of these events, a number builder was nowhere to be seen, I took many photographs of states decided to organize exhibitions centered on folk and came away intrigued by this man’s extraordinary art. It was often such exhibitions that guided our search. vision. And so began a lifelong interest in art made by One of these surveys was called Missing Pieces—Georgia men and women who, although untrained as artists, have Folk Art 1776-1976. I sent for the catalog and found that a powerful need to express themselves—and often do so the exhibition contained not only traditional objects in unconvential ways. (such as quilts, baskets and woodcarvings) but also Unburdened by the history of art and with limited the work by seemingly eccentric artists who, while not resources, these folk artists (also known as naives, fitting the folklorists’ traditional definition of “folk art,” visionaries and self-taught artists and, when operating commended themselves through their powerful images and on the economic and social fringes of society, a outsider strong messages. I took a sabbatical from teaching and, artists) draw heavily on their personal experiences and with my wife and son (who was then 7 months old) drove skills and develop their own—often very unusual— to Georgia to meet some of these artists. formats. Because of their lack of traditional artmaking One of our first encounters was with Howard Finster, skills and the eccentric forms their work takes, they are a preacher who had decided some years earlier to build a often not taken seriously and (especially when the work sculpture park called Paradise Garden in a small town in takes on the scale of the Watts Towers) even vilified by northwest Georgia. Everything he created there contained neighbors and pursued by code enforcers. Bible quotations combined with personal recollections. An example of an artist who was at odds with his When we met him, he had just begun a series of paintings; community was Jesse Howard. When I began teaching at a sign explained that “One day I dipped my finger in 4 white paint and there appeared a human face at the end After he fell off a tractor as a child, Dexhimer developed of my finger. A feeling came into me that I should paint learning disabilities but showed a profound ability to draw sacred art pictures. I am now trying.” From the paintings and paint, with an almost photographic memory for visual nailed to the front of his bicycle and TV repair shop, we imagery. He eventually dropped out of school and lived selected one for purchase (What Is the Soul of Man, now in with his brother in a trailer; while brother Abe worked in the collection of the High Museum in Atlanta). This work a shoe factory, Alva drew on whatever materials he could began my fascination with works that combined text with lay his hands on—especially leather scraps and other images; in the hands of artists whose experience with the discards from the shoe factory and pieces of cardboard written language may be limited, words and individual which he shaped carefully with rounded corners. On these letters take unusual twists and turns that make them as he painted iconic portraits of his favorite country singers, powerful as the images they share. comic book heroes and faces of real estate salesmen In 1982, I was invited to speak at an exhibition copied from newspapers; scraps of wood were transformed organized by the University of Missouri (Missouri Folk— into cowboys and crosses. Their Creative Images). One of the artists included was Ultimately, what draws me to the work of folk artists Robert E. Smith; upon hearing that I was going to speak is the direct, honest and original expression of memories, at the opening reception, Robert packed up one of his ideas, feelings and convictions with an often startling use paintings and sent it to me in the hopes that I would buy of materials. For years, my wife and I have driven the back it. I not only sent him a check but also purchased most roads of the Midwest and South in search of artists.
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