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Laguna Hills, CA
Theodore "Ted" Gordon
1924-
Drawings (pencil, pen, marker, etc.)
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Information:
Originally from Kentucky, he makes his home in Laguna Hills, California. His highly detailed and obsessive pen and marker portraits are his best known work. He says they are all self portraits. He creates images in black and white and in bright colors. Both styles are highly sought.
His earliest pieces or "doodles" were rendered on whatever paper he found at hand. In time, he began drawing on very high-grade stiff paper board used to separate medical x-ray film during shipment that he collected at the hospital where he worked. Some consider his early drawings from the late 60's and early 70's on the reverse of San Francisco Opera posters to be his most desirable.
For many years, European collectors have prized his work as belonging to the art brut style, with its obsessively detailed images of tormented, restless and troubled faces.
Biographical information and all images are generously provided by FocalArt Gallery.
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Bibliography:
"Detour Art—Outsider, Folk Art, and Visionary Folk Art Environments Coast to Coast, Art and Photographs from the Collection of Kelly Ludwig" by Kelly Ludwig, Kansas City Star Books, 2007.
"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 Taught, Outsider, and Folk Art—A guide to American Artists, Locations and Resources" by Betty-Carol Sellen with Cynthia J. Johnson, McFarland & Company, 2000.
"Contemporary American Folk Art - A Collector's Guide" Chuck and Jan Rosenak, Abbeville Press, 1996.
"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.
"Wos Up Man?" Selections from the Joseph D. and Janet M. Sheen Collection of Self-taught Art" by Joyce Henri Robinson, Palmer Museum of Art, 2005.
"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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