Folksy, Rustic Artsy -- Self-Taught Works Capture Imagination
The Commercial Appeal (2007-Current) › August 17, 2008
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Much of the work in "Ancestry & Innovation: African-American Art from the American Folk Art Museum," now on display at the Dixon Gallery and Gardens, was created by poverty-bound Southerners who rarely, if ever, examined art in an institutional setting.
Yet the Dixon's austere, chapel-like galleries are the perfect environment for this vibrant collection of quilts, sculptures and paintings.See the full content of this document
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Folksy, Rustic Artsy -- Self-Taught Works Capture Imagination
In recent years, several Memphis museums have embraced and elevated folk art, following the example set by cultural trendsetters such as New York's Whitney Museum of American Art.
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