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Fulton , MO
Sorehead Hill - Jesse "Outlaw" Howard
1885-1983
Signage
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Information:
"I ain't never got anywhere with any of this. They just keep a-goin right on by. I don't understand it. Never got anywhere. Got no cooperation a-tall."
Over the years, Jesse Howard created hundreds of painted signs and banners that he planted in his yard and plastered on the outside of his house to confront all who passed along the road in front of his home.
The world according to Howard was a collage of news, bias, opinion, Scripture, and political commentary. It was also a visual collage - an abstract overlay of graphic design and typography.
Jesse eventually had to stop posting signs by the roadside because they were stolen or destroyed. A group of townsfolk even circulated a petition to have him committed to the state mental hospital. The petition failed, because his neighbors refused to sign it.
This environment was bulldozed in 1989 but individual pieces can be found for sale.
From: Naives and Visionaries, E.P. Dutton & Co. and Self-Taught Artists by Gerard C. Wertkin
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Bibliography:
On DVD - Rare Visions and Roadside Revelations, "Miles and Miles o' Mo-Tex-Arkana", KCPT, Kansas City Public Television, 1996-2001.
The Callaway County Public Library has four excellent articles on Jesse Howard including: "Howard praised in Kansas City," "Free thought, free speech and Jesse Howard," "Sign-painter Howard dies at 98," and "Faded Workshops".
"Naives and Visionaries", E.P. Dutton & Co., Inc, 1974.
"Museum of American Folk Art Encyclopedia of Twentieth Century American Folk Art and Artists" by Chuck and Jan Rosenak, Abbeville Press, New York, 1990.
"20th Century American Folk, Self Taught, and Outsider Art" by Betty-Carol Sellen, Cynthia J. Johnson, Neal-Schuman Publishers, New York, 1993.
"Self-Made Worlds: Visionary Environments" by Roger Manley and Mark Sloan, Aperture, New York, 1997.
Self-Taught Artists by Gerard C. Wertkin, 1998. Published in the U.S. by Chronicle Books, San Francisco LLC. Reprinted with permission.
Slotin Folk Art Auction Catalog, Masterpiece Sale, November 4, 2006
"Contemporary Folk Art: Treasures from the Smithsonian American Art Museum" by Tom Patterson, Watson-Guptill Publications/New York, 2001.
"Rare Visions and Roadside Revelations Coast to Coast Travel-o-Pedia" by Randy Mason, et. al., Kansas City Star Books, 2009. |
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