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Austin, TX Eddie Arning 1898-1993 Drawing (pencil, pen, marker, etc.)

Information: Eddie Arning was born in a Texas farming community to strict Lutheran parents. He left school after six years to work on the family farm. Symptoms of mental illness appeared when he was in his mid-twenties, and bouts of anger and depression culminated in an attack on his mother. At age thirty, he was convicted of insanity in a jury trial and sentenced to a mental institution. In 1964, at age sixty-six, his symptoms had abated and he was transferred to a nursing home, where the ten-year period of his artistic life began. At the home, Arning was given coloring books by a teacher who, seeing his talent, encouraged him to make drawings on his own. Arning's drawings, done on paper in crayon and pastel, are inspired by magazine illustrations. A comparison of Arning's drawings with the original sources reveals his manipulation of the design elements, and accentuates the particularity of his approach. Text excerpted from The Ames Gallery

	Reference / Links:
	Raw Vision Magazine: "Pamela Jane Sachant Follows Eddie Arning's American Dream" ricco|maresca gallery: "Eddie Arning" Lindsay Gallery: "Eddie Arning" The Anthony Petullo Collection of Self-taught and Outsider Art The Ames Gallery Outsider Folk Art
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Bibliography: Hemphill and Weissman's -20th Century American Folk Art and Artists "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. "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. "The Intuitive Eye, The Mendelsohn Collection" by Ricco/Maresca Gallery, 2000. "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. "American Self-Taught Art: An Illustrated Analysis of 20th Century Artists and Trends with 1,319 Capsule Biographies" by Florence Laffal and Julius Laffal, 2003. "Folk Painters of America" by Robert Bishop. In 1985, he had a year-long exhibit at the Abby Alrich Rockefeller Folk Art Center in Williamsburg, Virginia His drawings are represented in the collections of more than a dozen museums.

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