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Cocoa Beach, FL Brian Dowdall 1948- Paintings

Information: Brian Dowdall was born in 1948 in Anaconda, Montana. He left home in his early teens, and for many years led a nomadic life working as a jack-of-all-trades -- digging ditches, picking potatoes, tarring roofs, and working on a worm farm. He lived in railroad cars, caves, and goat sheds before making his way to Florida, where he has been living in the same beach house for the last two decades. Brian is best known for his cardboard and sand paintings of animal spirits. His menagerie includes alligators, armadillos, possums, dogs, cats, and snakes of every description. He sets each animal in a luminous field, or celebratory "aura" of color; his palette comes from "the sun, moon, fire, earth, trees, and water." Ginger Young Gallery

	Reference / Links:
	Ginger Young Gallery: "Brian Dowdall" Slotin Folk Art
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Bibliography: 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. "Extraordinary Interpretations: Florida’s Self-taught Artists" by Gary Monroe, 2003. "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.

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