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Brooklyn, NY Ray Hamilton 1920-1996 Mixed media

Information: Ray Hamilton loved to draw. For roughly 13 to 14 years, he created spare, elegant and sometimes puzzling drawings in a range of media. His subjects included animals, especially farm animals, birds, male and female figures, alone or in small groups, mundane objects, pieces of fruit, the sun, moon, stars, and sometimes numbers, lots of numbers. A black male resident in a decrepit adult home for the mentally ill, already in his 60s, R. A. Hamilton would have seemed an unlikely candidate to become a major artist. But he did just that. Once he began to make art, he sustained his interest and developed his career until his death, even re-teaching himself to draw after a stroke. (article continued on Raw Visions web site) Excerpted from Raw Visions

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	Raw Vision Magazine: "Ray Hamilton" K.S. Art: "Ray Hamilton" HAI (in the Outsider Art exhibit): "Ray Hamilton" Slotin Folk Art
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Bibliography: Raw Vision Magazine: "Ray Hamilton" "20th Century American Folk, Self Taught, and Outsider Art" by Betty-Carol Sellen, Cynthia J. Johnson, Neal-Schuman Publishers, New York, 1993. "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. "Self Taught, Outsider, and Folk Art—A guide to American Artists, Locations and Resources" by Betty-Carol Sellen with Cynthia J. Johnson, 2000. "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. Slotin Folk Art Auction Catalog, Masterpiece Sale, November 4, 2006

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