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USA
Southwest
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Tuscon, AZ
Justin McCarthy
1892-1977
Drawings (pencil, pen, marker, etc.)
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Information:
"Justin McCarthy grew up in Weatherly, Pennsylvania, where he spent most of his life. He came from an affluent family with whom he moved to Paris after a more favored brother died."
"He was left on his own a lot, and spent time at the Louvre. His father committed suicide in 1907. He failed at law school, had a breakdown, and "drew to recover." After his family lost their money, he supported himself and his mother by raising and selling vegetables."
"After she died in 1940, he had a series of menial jobs. McCarthy began painting in the 1920's but was not "discovered" until 1962. He worked in many media and had a tremendous range of subjects, but his most frequent were current entertainment personalities, particularly movie stars and sports figures. He died in Tucson, Arizona."
Biographical information from Self Taught, Outsider, and Folk Art: A Guide to American Artists, Locations and Resources by Betty-Carol Sellen, Cynthia J. Johanson
Images are from "Folk Art: Magazine Of The Museum Of American Folk Art" - Winter, 1992
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Bibliography:
"Folk Art: Magazine Of The Museum Of American Folk Art" - Winter, 1992.
"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.
"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, Cynthia J. Johanson, 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.
Slotin Folk Art Auction Catalog, Masterpiece Sale, November 4, 2006
"Contemporary Folk Art: Treasures from the Smithsonian American Art Museum" by Tom Patterson, Watson-Guptill Publications/New York, 2001. |
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