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Patterson, LA
Yard Show - David "Dave" Butler
1898-1997
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"People took Butler's work—just took it, just went to his house. I remember going there and seeing him towards the very end when he was so depressed, he wouldn't even talk to you, because they had stolen his house." Jim Roche
"It was wonderful, even magical, and then one day nothing was left." Roger Manley
David Butler was born in Saint Mary Parish, Louisiana in 1898. When he was his 40s a work-related accident forced him into early retirement. He began creating cut, folded and painted metal sculptures to fill his free time.
Butler said he usually received his ideas in dreams. His pieces included flying elephants, sea monsters, roosters, lizards, fish, dogs and alligators. Some sculptural pieces functioned as whirigigs. Others had moving parts attached to each other with wire.
Biographical info and images (except as noted) are from the exhibition catalog "Black Folk Art in America 1930-1980" by Jane Livingston and John Beardsley
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Bibliography:
"Museum of American Folk Art Encyclopedia of Twentieth Century American Folk Art and Artists" by Chuck and Jan Rosenak, Abbeville Press, New York, 1990.
"Contemporary American Folk Art - A Collector's Guide" Chuck and Jan Rosenak, Abbeville Press, 1996.
"Black Folk Art in America 1930-1980" by Jane Livingston and John Beardsley, published for the Corcoran Gallery of Art, 1982.
Sherman, Charlotte (Essay), "With an Eye and a Passion: Selections from The Marion Collection"
Maresca, Frank, Roger Ricco, "American Self-Taught: Paintings & Drawings by Outsider Artists"
"Baking in the Sun, Visionary Images from the South" by Andy Nasisse and Maude Wahlman, University of Washington Press, exhibit catalog, 1987.
"American Folk Art of the Twentieth Century"
Livingston, Jane/J Beardsley, "Black Folk Art in America, 1930-1980" (exhibit catalog)
"Let it Shine: Self-Taught Art from the T. Marshall Hahn Collection" by Lynne E. Spriggs, Joanne Cubbs, Lynda Roscoe Hartigan, Susan Mitchell Crawley, Michael E. Shapiro and Peter Harholdt, organized by the High Museum of Art, 2001.
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Slotin Folk Art Auction Catalog, Masterpiece Sale, November 4, 2006
"20th Century American Folk, Self Taught, and Outsider Art" by Betty-Carol Sellen, Cynthia J. Johnson, Neal-Schuman Publishers, New York, 1993.
"Self Taught, Outsider, and Folk Art—A guide to American Artists, Locations and Resources" by Betty-Carol Sellen with Cynthia J. Johnson, 2000.
"Souls Grown Deep: African American vernacular Art of the South", Vol 2, Arnett, et al, 2001.
"Flying Free: Twentieth-Century Self-Taught Art from the Collection of Ellin and Baron Gordon" by Ellin Gordon, Barbara L. Luck and Tom Patterson, exhibit catalog for The Abby Aldrich Rockefeller Folk Art Center, 1997.
"Self-Made Worlds: Visionary Environments" by Roger Manley and Mark Sloan, Aperture, New York, 1997.
"Sublime Spaces & Visionary Worlds: Built Environments of Vernacular Artists," by Leslie Umberger, Erika Doss, Ruth DeYoung Kohler, Lisa Stone, and Jane Bianco, published by John Michael Kohler Arts Center and Princeton Architectural Press, 2007. |
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