JULY/AUGUST 2023
Editor’s Letter
Gregory Cerio
Field Notes
Blind Spots
Elizabeth Pochoda
Current and Coming
A self-taught artist in the internment camps; the sculpture of William Edmondson at Philadelphia’s Barnes Foundation ; women of the Hudson River school at the Thomas Cole House; Hector Guimard, Architecte d’art, at the Driehaus; and this is your life, Frederick Douglass
Personal Space
One Artist’s Notes on Visiting an Art Fair
Laurene Krasny Brown
Facets and Settings
Museum Visit
Second Sight: The Intuit museum embodies Chicago’s longstanding appreciation for self-taught and outsider art
Thomas Connors
Object Lesson
A Blueprint for Early America: On Owen Biddle’s 1806 book The Young Carpenter’s Assistant
Benjamin Davidson and Pippa Biddle
Events
Sierra Holt
Endnotes
Making Choices
Eleanor H. Gustafson
Features
Clay, Water, and Spirit
An exhibition of Pueblo pottery seeks to reveal the soul that resides within the art
Laura Beach
Seamless Transition
An excerpt from the book The New Antiquarians takes us into the Maine home of a young clothing designer turned folk art collector and dealer
Michael Diaz-Griffith
Community Chest
Artist and artisan Madeline Yale Wynne and the founding of the Deerfield arts and crafts movement
Suzanne L. Flynt and Daniel S. Sousa
From a Chain Gang to Art Museums
Overcoming extraordinary adversity, self-taught artist Winfred Rembert preserved his fraught past in words and in startling images made of tooled and painted leather
David Ebony
Narratives in the Needlework
Storytelling through quilts in the collection of the American Folk Art Museum
Emelie Gevalt and Sadé Ayorinde
Making Faces
Federal American Vernacular Portraits, 1790s to 1840s
Suzanne Rudnick Payne and Michael R. Payne