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Berkeley, CA Dwight Mackintosh 1906-1999 Drawing (pencil, pen, marker, etc.)

Information: Dwight Mackintosh spent most of his life in treatment for mental retardation, beginning at the age of 16. Very little is known about his early years; he spent fifty-six years in institutions until he was released in 1978. As he had previously shown an aptitude for drawing, and began participating in a program at the Creative Growth Center in Oakland, California, sparking off twenty years of image-making. Mackintosh’s work is often characterized by his commanding lines, emphatically intertwining to form pictures of figures, vehicles, buildings, and other recurring motifs. It was difficult to understand Mackintosh’s speech, but through his drawings his personal and imaginative world became apparent. The images in his work emerge from the complex weave of lines and secret, undecipherable text to form forceful, bold compositions. John MacGregor, a noted art historian and authority on Mackintosh’s work, describes the power of his drawings, as "they represent the externalization of the artist’s internal reality. The consistent pictorial language in which the images are embodied is exclusively the product of internal necessity and of obsessive need to fill the blankness of paper with personal markings." (1) ENDNOTES (1) MacGregor, John. Dwight Mackintosh: The Boy Who Time Forgot (Oakland: Creative Growth Center, 1990), 12. Considered one of "50 Classic Outsiders", Raw Vision Sourcebook, 2002" © 2006 The Anthony Petullo Collection of SELF-TAUGHT AND OUTSIDER ART

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	abcd-art brut (under Collection > Artists): Dwight Mackintosh The Ames Gallery: Dwight Mackintosh ricco|maresca gallery: Dwight Mackintosh Demchak, Baller, Borgen & Dardarian Lawyers & Art Gallery Slotin Folk Fest The Anthony Petullo Collection of SELF-TAUGHT AND OUTSIDER ART
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Bibliography: Museums ABCD Collection, Paris Anthony Petullo Collection, Milwaukee, WI L'Aracine Collection at Villeneuve d'Ascq, Ville High Museum of Art, Atlanta, GA Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, DC References "Dwight Mackintosh: The Boy Who Time Forgot", MacGregor, 1991 "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. "Let it Shine: Self-Taught Art from the T. Marshall Hahn Collection" organized by the High Museum of Art, 2001. "50 Classic Outsiders", Raw Vision Sourcebook, 2002" Slotin Folk Art Auction Catalog, Masterpiece Sale, November 4, 2006 "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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