LCV Spring 2013 - (Page 52)
SELF-TAUGHT,
OUTSIDER AND
VISIONARY ART
GIFT OF THE ARTIST
FROM THE
PERMANENT
COLLECTION OF
THE OGDEN
MUSEUM OF
SOUTHERN ART
top: Detail of Untitled, by Welmon Sharlhorne, 2003
left: Baptism, by Clementine Hunter, 1950
For more information on
Clementine Hunter, visit
hen building a
comprehensive collection
of art from the American
South, the vernacular genres of selftaught, outsider and visionary art are
bound to make up a significant part.
Since the collection began through
the vision and collecting practices of
the museum’s founding donor, Roger
Houston Ogden, pieces by artists
working in styles often considered
folk art have shared equal treatment
with other artists attached in varying
degrees to academia.
In any discussion of this type of
work, questions inevitably arise
about the genre definitions and the
relevance of the work to art history.
The terms “self-taught,” “outsider”
and “visionary” are more
appropriately applied to these artists’
works than the broader designation
of “folk art,” which also includes
utilitarian objects such as weather
OGDEN MUSEUM
W
52 LOUISIANA ENDOWMENT FOR THE HUMANITIES • Spring 2013
http://ogdenmuseum.org/
http://www.knowla.org/entry.php?rec=446
Table of Contents for the Digital Edition of LCV Spring 2013
LCV Spring 2013
https://www.nxtbook.com/leh/lcvwinter13/lcvwinter13
https://www.nxtbook.com/leh/lcvspring2013/lcvspring2013
https://www.nxtbookmedia.com