METROPOLITAN PAVILION
125 W 18TH ST
BOOTH B9
For the 33rd edition of the Outsider Art Fair, Ricco/Maresca is proud to present a booth featuring a curated selection of masterpieces of Outsider, Self-Taught, and Art Brut, primarily from the esteemed collection of Robert M. Greenberg.
Built over a period of more than 40 years, this collection holds the best examples of work by Henry Darger (1892 - 1973), Martín Ramírez (1895 - 1963), William Edmondson (1874 - 1951), Bill Traylor (1853 - 1949), David Butler (1898 - 1997), Sam Doyle (1906 - 1985), William Hawkins (1895 - 1990), Aloïse Corbaz (1886 - 1964), Augustin Lesage (1876 - 1954), and Adolf Wölfli (1864 - 1930), among others.
“I collect art because the works offer me pleasure” wrote Greenberg in the introduction of the exhibition catalog Masterpieces from the Robert M. Greenberg Collection, published by Ricco/Maresca in 1999. “The pleasure lies in the examples of singular vision. The search for singular vision has driven me to gather the beautiful and often difficult works you see represented in this volume. By collecting, I am trying to protect myself. I surround myself with evidence of singular vision because I need to affirm that the individual is real and unique. What I find in outsider art is the opposite of what I find in the digital world: no compromise and complete expressive freedom.”
VIP & Press Preview:
Thursday, February 27th: 12–6pm
Vernissage:
Thursday, February 27th: 6-9pm
Open to the Public:
Friday, February 28th: 11am-8pm
Saturday, March 1st: 11am-8pm
Sunday, March 2nd: 11am-6pm
FOR MORE INFORMATION ABOUT THE FAIR CLICK HERE.
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WILLIAM EDMONDSON (1874 - 1951)
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WILLIAM HAWKINS (1895 - 1990)
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HENRY DARGER (1892 - 1973)
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Bill Traylor (ca. 1853 - 1949)
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Turtle with Black Head, ca. 1939 - 42Graphite and poster paint on found cardboard14 x 11 1/2 in. (35.6 x 29.2 cm)(BT 78) -
Turtle with Black Head was included in Bill Traylor's first exhibition in a former cotton sorting buiilding—headquarters of the New South Group. Photograph by Charles Shannon (Montgomery, Alabama, 1940)
"Early in 1939, a group of friends and I got together to try to start something that would alleviate the barrenness of our cultural landscape. We managed to generate some activities that lasted about a year. Whatever anyone wanted to try, we would. We got a meeting place and called it New South. It was a third-floor space in a downtown building consisting of several rooms originally used for cotton sampling.
Many skylights and windows down one side made for a beautiful light. The walls were predominantly a light blue but the scaling paint revealed many other colors. We held exhibitions of pottery and paintings by Southern artists ... It was here that we hung Bill Traylor's first show less than a year after he had begun to draw."
Image reproduced and text quoted from an interview with Charles Shannon in Ricco/Maresca's book Bill Traylor: His Art, His Life (Alfred A. Knopf, 1991), the fist publication entirely devoted to the artist's work.
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MARTÍN RAMÍREZ (1895 - 1963)
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SAM DOYLE (1906 - 1985)
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FRANK JONES (1900 - 1969)
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JOE MASSEY (1895 - ?)
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Don't Let him Fall, 1945-47Ink on paper11 x 8 1/2 in (27.9 x 21.6 cm)(JMS 47)
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He Ask Me. Could I Fly, 1945-47Ink on paper11 x 8 1/2 in (27.9 x 21.6 cm)(JMS 50)
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In the Wild World, 1946Ink and tempera on paper12 x 9 in (30.5 x 22.9 cm)(JMS 49)
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I Just had to Come Down, 1946Ink and tempera on paper12 x 9 in (30.5 x 22.9 cm)(JMS 48)
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PERLEY MEYER (P. M.) WENTWORTH (1893 - 1985)
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DAVID BUTLER (1898 – 1997)
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SISTER GERTRUDE MORGAN (1900 - 1980)
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ADOLF WÖLFLI (1864 - 1930)
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ALOÏSE CORBAZ (1886 - 1964)
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AUGUSTIN LESAGE (1876 - 1954)
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CARLO ZINELLI (1916 - 1974)
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CODA: TRUDE VIKEN (B. 1969)
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Trude Viken's debut exhibition with Ricco/Maresca (Twilight Dwellers) will open with our Annual Winter Party on Friday, February 28 (6 - 9pm). Access the online viewing room here.
