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Overview
Throughout history there have been artists who created
without the benefit of formal training. However, for many centuries, the dominance
of the European art academies obscured the work of these self-taught artists,
who were judged to be inept and inferior. Only at the dawn of the 20th century,
when artists began to rebel against the academies, did self-taught art suddenly
receive serious attention from the mainstream art-world. Artists like Picasso
and Kandinsky felt that trained artists were inevitably corrupted by their
schooling, and that self-taught artists were purer and potentially greater.
In the wake of this support from important modern artists, collectors, dealers
and scholars developed a sustained interest in self-taught art.
The Galerie St. Etienne specializes in a range of American and European
self-taught artists active from the 19th century through the present.
Artists
Ilija Bosilj Basicevic
(Serbian, 1895-1972)
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Rigaud Benoit
(Haitian, b. 1911)
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Camille Bombois
(French, 1883-1970)
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Joseph Crépin
(French, 1875-1948)
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Henry Darger
(American, 1892-1973)
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Minnie Evans
(American, 1892-1987)
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Emerijk Fejes
(Croatian, 1904-1969)
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Erastus Salisbury Field
(American, 1805-1900)
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Howard Finster
(American, b. 1916)
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Victor Joseph Gatto
(American, 1893-1965)
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Dragan Gazi
(Croatian, b. 1930)
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Ivan Generalic
(Croatian, b. 1914)
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Edward Hicks
(American, 1780-1849)
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Morris Hirshfield
(American, 1872-1946)
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Hector Hyppolite
(Haitian, 1894-1948)
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Josephine Joy
(American, 1869-1948)
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John Kane
(American, 1860-1934)
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H.O. Kelly
(American, 1884-1955)
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Ivan Lackovic
(Croatian, b. 1932)
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Felix Lafortune
(Haitian, b. 1933)
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Dominique Lagru
(French, 1873-1960)
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Lawrence Lebduska
(American, 1894-1966)
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Jules LeFranc
(French, 1887-1972)
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Pavel Leonov
(Russian, b. 1920)
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Abraham Levin
(American, 1880-1957)
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Israel Litwak
(American, 1868-1960)
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Séraphine Louis
(French, 1894-1934)
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Ivana Lovkovic |
Ivana Lovkovic |
Justin McCarthy
(American, 1892-1977)
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Anna Mary Robertson 'Grandma' Moses
(American, 1860-1961)
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Michel Nedjar
(French, b. 1947)
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Nikifor
(Polish, 1893-1968)
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Philomé Obin
(Haitian, 1892-1986)
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Nan Phelps
(American, 1904-1990)
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Ammi Phillips
(American, 1788-1865)
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Prospere Pierre-Louis
(Haitian, b. 1947)
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Horace Pippin
(American, 1888-1946)
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Ivan Rabuzin
(Croatian, 1921-)
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Josef Karl Rädler
(Austrian, 1844-1917)
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Martin Ramirez
(Mexican, 1885-1960)
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Fred E. Robertson
(American, 1878-1953)
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Vasilij Romanenkov
(Russian, b. 1953)
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Henri Rousseau
(French, 1844-1910)
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Ladis Sabo
(American, 1870-1953)
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Patsy Santo
(American, 1893-?)
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Friedrich Schröder-Sonnenstern
(German, 1892-1982)
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Sava Sekulic
(Serbo-Croatian, 1902-1989)
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Jon Serl
(American, 1894-1993)
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Matija Skurjeni
(1898-1990)
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Robert St. Brice
(Haitian, 1893-1977)
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St. Soleil Group
(Haitian)
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Bill Traylor
(American, 1854-1947)
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Ivan Vecenaj
(Born 1920)
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Louis Vivin
(French, 1861-1936)
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Scottie Wilson
(Scottish, 1888-1972)
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Josef Wittlich
(German, 1903-1982)
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Joseph E. Yoakum
(American, 1886-1972)
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Rosa Zharkikh
(Russian, b. 1930)
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Gallery Exhibitions
Neue Galerie, Vienna
Grandma Moses, June 13, 1950
Fifty oils. In association with the Galerie St. Etienne, New York, and under the auspices of the U.S. Information Service
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Galerie St. Etienne, New York
What a Farm Wife Painted, October 9, 1940
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Abraham Levin, November 4, 1942
Paintings
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Josephine Joy, May 3, 1943
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Grandma Moses, February 9, 1944
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Abraham Levin, April 15, 1944
New paintings
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Grandma Moses, December 5, 1944
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Fred E. Robertson, June 13, 1945
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Ladis W. Sabo, April 8, 1946
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Grandma Moses, May 17, 1947
Paintings
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American Primitives, June 3, 1948
E. Hicks, J. Kane, J. Pickett and others
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Ten Years Grandma Moses, November 22, 1948
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Grandma Moses, March 17, 1951
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American Natural Painters, March 31, 1952
S. Blair, H. O. Kelly, I. Litwak, Grandma Moses, L. Sabo and others
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A Grandma Moses Album, April 15, 1953
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Grandma Moses, October 21, 1953 - October 24, 1953
On the occasion of the dedication of Grandma Moses' painting, The Battle of Bennington, to the Daughters of the American Revolution
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A Tribute to Grandma Moses, November 28, 1955
A loan exhibition of paintings by Grandma Moses assembled in observance of the artist's 95th birthday. Held at the IBM Gallery
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Grandma Moses, May 6, 1957
New York showing of an exhibition of paintings presented in Europe during 1955-1957
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Jules Lefranc and Dominique Lagru, November 18, 1957
Paintings. First American showing
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My Life's History, September 12, 1960
Held at the IBM Gallery in observance of the artist's 100th birthday. Subsequently circulated for one year by the Smithsonian Institution and presented at museums in the United States. Shown from 1962 to 1964 in fifteen European museums in Austria, France, Germany, the Scandinavian countries, and the Soviet Union
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Grandma Moses, September 7, 1961
Paintings which illustrate The Grandma Moses Story Book, in honor of the artist's' 101st birthday.
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Grandma Moses, November 26, 1962
Paintings
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25th Anniversary Exhibition, November 21, 1964
Austrian and New Mexican religious folk art, works by Yugoslav and French primitives, Grandma Moses and others
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Abraham Levin, September 26, 1967
Oils and gouaches
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Yugoslav Primitive Art, April 30, 1968
D. Gazi, I. Generalic, I. Rabuzin and others
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Branko Paradis, December 1, 1971
A new Yugoslav primitive painter and a collection of works by E. Fejes, I. Generalic and I. Rabuzin
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American Primitive Art, November 22, 1977
Embroidered samplers; religious art of New Mexico; paintings by E. Hicks, A. Kingsley, Grandma Moses, J. Pickett, H. Pippin and others
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The Folk Art Tradition, November 17, 1981 - January 9, 1982
Rural Austrian craftsmen; New Mexican Santeros; 19th-century American artists including Durrie, Hicks and Milton; French Naïves including Bombois, Lagru and Rousseau; 20th-century American artists including Hirshfield, Kane, Phelps and Grandma Moses; and the Yugoslav School
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Aspects of Modernism, June 1, 1982 - September 3, 1982
An eclectic mix of Expressionism, folk art and social commentary, including works by Ernst Barlach, Gustav Klimt, Oskar Kokoschka, Käthe Kollwitz, Alfred Kubin, Eugène Mihaesco, Grandma Moses, Ammi Phillips and Egon Schiele
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Grandma Moses, November 15, 1982 - January 8, 1983
A loan exhibition of her most significant works
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John Kane, April 17, 1984 - May 25, 1984
Including loans from 19 museums and private collections across the United States
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American Folk Art, June 12, 1984 - September 14, 1984
Including nineteenth- and twentieth-century paintings by Edward Hicks, Noah North, Ammi Phillips, John Kane, Grandma Moses, Horace Pippin and others
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Grandma Moses and Selected Folk Paintings, September 25, 1984 - November 3, 1984
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European and American Landscapes, June 4, 1985 - September 13, 1985
Lovis Corinth, Richard Gerstl, Vincent van Gogh, Gustav Klimt, Oskar Kokoschka, Alfred Kubin, Eugène Mihaesco, Grandma Moses, Edvard Munch, Henri Rousseau, Egon Schiele, Maurice Utrillo and others
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The Art of Giving, December 3, 1985 - January 18, 1986
An exhibition including a potpourri of works by Paul Cézanne, Honoré Daumier, Gustav Klimt, Oskar Kokoschka, Käthe Kollwitz, Alfred Kubin, Edouard Manet, Eugène Mihaesco, Grandma Moses, Georges Rouault, Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, and many others
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Folk Art of This Century, February 10, 1987 - March 28, 1987
Rigaud Benoit, Camille Bombois, Minnie Evans, Ivan Generalic, Hector Hyppolite, John Kane, Gustav Klumpp, Grandma Moses, Nikifor, Philomé Obin, Horace Pippin, Martin Ramirez, Henri Rousseau, Bill Traylor, Louis Vivin, Joseph Yoakum and many others
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Folk Artists at Work, November 15, 1988 - January 14, 1989
Paintings and preliminary studies. Including loans from the Carnegie Museum of Art, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Museum of Modern Art, the Whitney Museum of American Art, the Phillips Collection, and numerous private collections
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Fifty Years Galerie St. Etienne: An Overview, February 14, 1989 - April 1, 1989
Edward Hicks, Ammi Phillips, Grandma Moses, Oskar Kokoschka, Käthe Kollwitz, Alfred Kubin, Egon Schiele and others
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Grandma Moses, November 14, 1989 - January 13, 1990
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Naive Visions/Art Nouveau and Expressionism/Sue Coe: The Road to the White House, May 19, 1992 - September 4, 1992
Three concise exhibitions, incorporating works by Camille Bombois, John Kane, Grandma Moses, Louis Vivin, George Grosz, Gustav Klimt, Oskar Kokoschka, Paula Modersohn-Becker, Egon Schiele, Sue Coe and others
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The "Outsider" Question, March 23, 1993 - May 28, 1993
André Bauchant, Camille Bombois, Henry Darger, Minnie Evans, Howard Finster, John Kane, Grandma Moses, Nikifor, Joseph Pickett, Horace Pippin, Martin Ramirez, Friedrich Schröder-Sonnenstern, Jon Serl, Bill Traylor, Louis Vivin, Scottie Wilson, AdolfWölfli, Joseph Yoakum and others
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The Forgotten Folk Art of the 1940's, January 18, 1994 - March 19, 1994
Morris Hirshfield, Josephine Joy, John Kane, H. O. Kelly, Lawrence Lebduska, Abraham Levin, Israel Litwak, Grandma Moses, Ladis Sabo, Patsy Santo, Fred Robertson, Clara McDonald
Williamson and others
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55th Anniversary Exhibition in Memory of Otto Kallir, June 7, 1994 - September 2, 1994
Austrian and German artists including Max Beckmann, Lovis Corinth, Richard Gerstl, Ludwig Heinrich Jungnickel, Gustav Klimt, Oskar Kokoschka, Alfred Kubin, Oskar Laske, Michael Neder, Emil Nolde, Anton Romanko, Josef Scharl, Egon Schiele and F. G. Waldmüller. Non-Academic artists including Rigaud Benoit, La Fortune Felix, Morris Hirshfield, John Kane, Lawrence Lebduska, Abraham Levin, Israel Litwak, Grandma Moses, Nikifor, and others
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Earl Cummingham - Grandma Moses, January 17, 1995 - March 18, 1995
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On the Brink 1900-2000, March 28, 1995 - May 26, 1995
Ernst Barlach, Max Beckmann, Charles Burns, Lovis Corinth, James Ensor, Howard Finster, Eric Fischl, George Grosz, Erich Heckel, Gustav Klimt, Max Klinger, Käthe Kollwitz, Alfred Kubin, Oskar Laske, Sally Mann, Frans Masereel, Steve McCurry, Ludwig Meidner, Paula Modersohn-Becker, Edvard Munch, Emil Nolde, Gary Panter, Georges Rouault, Egon Schiele, Cindy Sherman, David Wojnarowicz and others
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New York Folk, January 16, 1996 - March 16, 1996
A special exhibition in conjunction with the fourth annual Outsider Art Fair
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Breaking All The Rules, June 11, 1996 - September 6, 1996
A survey of recent acquisitions including works by Max Beckmann, Sue Coe, Lovis Corinth, George Grosz, Erich Heckel, Morris Hirshfield, John Kane, Gustav Klimt, Oskar Kokoschka, Käthe Kollwitz, Lawrence Lebduska, Abraham Levin, Israel Litwak, Grandma Moses, Emil Nolde, Horace Pippin, Egon Schiele and others
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That Way Madness Lies, January 14, 1997 - March 15, 1997
A pair of exhibitions including works by Max Beckmann, Richard Gerstl, Erich Heckel, Paul Klee, Oskar Kokoschka, Alfred Kubin, Otto Mueller, Emil Nolde, Egon Schiele, Johann Fischer, Johann Hauser, Franz Kernbeis, Oswald Tschirtner, August Walla and others
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Sacred & Profane, January 13, 1998 - March 14, 1998
A pair of exhibitions including works by Max Beckmann, Otto Dix, Erich Heckel, Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, Oskar Kokoschka, Alfred Kubin, Otto Mueller,Michel Nedjar, Emil Nolde, Max Pechstein, Egon Schiele and others
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Henry Darger and His Realms, January 14, 1999 - March 13, 1999
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The Modern Child, September 14, 1999 - November 6, 1999
Charles Burchfield, Sue Coe, Henry Darger, Otto Dix, George Grosz, Edward Hopper, Käthe Kollwitz, Paula Modersohn-Becker, Grandma Moses, Alice Neel, Ben Shahn, Raphael Soyer, Egon Schiele and others
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European Self-Taught Art, January 18, 2000 - March 11, 2000
Anselme Boix-Vives, Aloïse Corbaz, Joseph Crépin, Pietro Ghizzardi, Madge Gill, the Artists of Gugging, Augustin Lesage, Michel Nedjar, Nikifor, Friedrich Schröder-Sonnenstern, Sava Sekulic, Alfred Wallis, Alois Wey, Scottie Wilson, Josef Wittlich, Adolf Wölfli, Carlo Zinelli and others. Side Shows: New Works by Henry Darger, January 18 - February 12. Expressionist Prints, February 15 - March 11
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"Our Beautiful and Tormented Austria!": Art Brut in the Land of Freud, January 18, 2001 - March 17, 2001
Emanuel Navratil, Josef Karl Rädler, Arnulf Rainer (in collaboration with Johann Hauser) and the Artists of Gugging. Side Show: Henry Darger
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Recent Acquisitions, June 25, 2002 - September 20, 2002
Gerd Arntz, Alfred Kubin, Heinrich Zille, Sue Coe, Henry Darger, George Grosz, Lea Grundig, Erich Heckel, Franz M. Jansen, Gustav Klimt, Oskar Kokoschka, Käthe Kollwitz, Pavel Leonov, Anna Mary Robertson 'Grandma' Moses, Michel Nedjar, Nikifor, Hermann Max Pechstein, Josef Karl Rädler, Egon Schiele, Karl Schmidt-Rottluff, Bill Traylor, Vasilij Romanenkovv, Maria Likarz, Franz Masereel, Raphael Soyer, Fritz Schaefler, Augustin Tschinkel, Justin McCarthy
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Russia's Self-Taught Artists, January 14, 2003 - March 29, 2003
Henry Darger, Pavel Leonov, Vasilij Romanenkov, Nikifor Zaiatz, Rosa Zharkikh
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Recent Acquisitions, June 24, 2003 - September 12, 2003
Ferdinand Andri, Sue Coe, Lea Grundig, Karl Hofer, Josef Hoffmann, Emil Hoppe, Marcel Kammerer, Gustav Klimt, Oskar Kokoschka, Käthe Kollwitz, Maria Likarz, Berthold Löffler, Fritzi Löw, Koloman Moser, Dagobert Peche, Alfred Roller, Egon Schiele, Otto Schönthal, Henry Darger, Minnie Evans, Pavel Leonov, Anna Mary Robertson ("Grandma") Moses, Michel Nedjar, Vasilij Romanenkov, Nikifor Zaiatz, Rosa Zharkikh, Johann Fischer, Franz Kernbeis, Johann Korec, Heinrich Reisenbauer, Günther Schützenhöfer, August Walla, Gudrun Baudisch, Hilda Jesser, Wally Wieselthier, Eduard Josef Wimmer-Wisgril, Emerik Fejes
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Henry Darger, January 15, 2004 - March 20, 2004
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65th Anniversary Exhibition, Part II, January 18, 2005 - March 26, 2005
Henry Darger, Minnie Evans, Edward Hicks, Morris Hirshfield, John Kane, S.F. Milton, Anna Mary Robertson ("Grandma") Moses, Ammi Phillips, Joseph Pickett, Prior-Hamblen School, Martin Ramirez, Bill Traylor, Ilija Bosilj-Basicevic, André Bauchant, Camille Bombois, Gaston Chaissac, Aloïse Corbaz, Joseph Crépin, Madge Gill, Augustin Lesage, Michel Nedjar, Nikifor, Josef Karl Rädler, Friedrich Schröder-Sonnenstern, Louis Vivin, Scottie Wilson, Adolf Wölfli, Anna Zemankova, Carlo Zinelli, Johann Fischer, Johann Garber, Johann Hauser, Franz Kernbeis, Heinrich Reisenbauer, Oswald Tschirtner, August Walla.
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Every Picture Tells a Story, April 5, 2005 - May 27, 2005
Ida Applebroog, Ernst Barlach, Max Beckmann, Sue Coe, Lovis Corinth, Gregory Crewdson, Henry Darger, James Ensor, Eric Fischl, George Grosz, John Heartfield, Gustav Klimt, William Kentridge, Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, Oskar Kokoschka, Käthe Kollwitz, Alfred Kubin, Oskar Laske, Paula Modersohn-Becker, Robyn O'Neil, Hermann Max Pechstein, Neo Rauch, Alexis Rockman, Martha Rosler, Josef Scharl, Heinrich Vogeler
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Recent Acquisitions, June 7, 2005 - September 9, 2005
Sue Coe, Alexis Rockman, Martha Rosler, Max Beckmann, Lovis Corinth, Otto Dix, Conrad Felimuller, George Grosz, Heckel, Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, Gustav Klimt, Oskar Kokoschka, Kathe Kollwitz, Egon Schiele, Ilija Bosilj-Basicevic, Joseph Crepin, Henry Darger, Minnie Evans, Johann Fischer, Johann Garber, Franz Kernbeis, Grandma Moses, Michel Nedjar, Heinrich Reisenbauer, Bill Traylor, Oswald Tschirtner, Scottie Wilson
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Ilija!, January 17, 2006 - March 18, 2006
Ilija Bosilij Basicevic, Dragan Gazi, Ivan Generalic, Ivan Lackovic, Ivana Lovkovic, Ivan Rabuzin, Sava Sekulic, Matija Skurjeni, Ivan Vecenaj
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Parallel Visions II, April 5, 2006 - May 26, 2006
Roger Ackling, Chelo Amezcua, Emery Blagdon, Sue Coe, Felipe Jesus Consalvos, Joseph Crepin, Henry Darger, Lucky DeBellevue, Steve DiBenedetto, Hiroyuki Doi, Marcel Dzama, Oyvind Fahlstrom, Sam Gordon, Chris Hipkiss, Howard Johnson, Ray Johnson, Frank Jones, Augustin Lesage, J.B. Murry, Michel Nedjar, Raymond Pettibon, Sandra Sheehy, James Siena, Mary Temple, Martin Thompson, Adolf Wolfli, Anna Zemankova, Rosa Zharkikh, Carlo Zinelli
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Recent Acquisitions, June 6, 2006 - September 8, 2006
Chelo Amezcua, Andre Bauchant, Emery Blagdon, Ilija Basicevic-Bosilj, Sue Coe, Lovis Corinth, Hiroyuki Doi, James Ensor, George Grosz, Erich Heckel, Chris Hipkiss, Karl Hofer, Paul Klee, Gustav Klimt, Oskar Kokoschka, Kathe Kollwitz, Wilhelm Lehmbruck, Augustin Lesage, Paula Modersohn-Becker, Emil Nolde, Anna Mary Robertson ("Grandma") Moses, J.B. Murry, Gerta Overbeck-Schenk, Hermann Max Pechstein, Egon Schiele, Sandra Sheehy, Martin Thompson, Louis Vivin, Anna Zemankova, Carlo Zinelli
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Fairy Tale, Myth and Fantasy, December 7, 2006 - February 3, 2007
Leonard Baskin, Castera Bazile, Francois Bellande, Ilija Bosilj-Basicevic, Ernesto Caivano, Marc Chagall, Lovis Corinth, Henry Darger, Walt Disney Studio, Minnie Evans, Madge Gill, Matthias Griebler, Paul Klee, Oskar Kokoschka, Alfred Kubin, Pavel Leonov, Sister Gertrude Morgan, Michel Nedjar, Emil Nolde, Hermann Max Pechstein, Pablo Picasso, Vasilij Romanenkov, George Rouault, Friedrich Schroder-Sonnenstern, Kiki Smith, Scottie Wilson, Rosa Zharkikh
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Recent Acquisitions, June 5, 2007 - September 28, 2007
Ilija Basicevic-Bosilj, Leonard Baskin, Max Beckmann, Sue Coe, Lovis Corinth, Joseph Crepin, Henry Darger, Otto Dix, Lyonel Feininger, Conrad Felixmuller, George Grosz, Josef Hoffmann, Emil Hoppe, Marcel Kammerer, Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, Gustav Klimt, Oskar Kokoschka, Käthe Kollwitz, Alfred Kubin, Pavel Leonov, Augustin Lesage, Jeanne Mammen, Paula Modersohn-Becker, Anna Mary Robertson ("Grandma") Moses, Michel Nedjar, Nikifor, Emil Nolde, Gertrude O'Brady, Dagobert Peche, Josef Karl Radler, Vasilij Romanenkov, Egon Schiele, Rudolf Schlichter, Karl Schwesig, Sava Sekulic, Bill Traylor, Rosa Zharkikh
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Transforming Reality, January 15, 2008 - March 8, 2008
Ilija Basicevic-Bosilj, Lyonel Feininger, Erich Heckel, Morris Hirshfield, E.L. Kirchner, Gustav Klimt, Käthe Kollwitz, Augustin Lesage, Paula Modersohn-Becker, Grandma Moses, Emil Nolde, Vasilij Romanenkov, Egon Schiele, Scottie Wilson
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Recent Acquisitions, June 24, 2008 - September 26, 2008
Leonard Baskin, Ilija Basicevic-Bosilj, Max Beckmann, Lovis Corinth, Otto Dix, Lyonel Feininger,George Grosz, John Heartfield, Morris Hirshfield, Erick Heckel, Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, Oskar Kokoschka, Käthe Kollwitz, A. Malsov, Jeanne Mammen, Paula Modersohn-Becker, Grandma Moses, Emile Nolde, Hermann Max Pechstein, Egon Schiele, and others.
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