Research Catalog

Title

Joseph E. Yoakum : what I saw / edited by Mark Pascale, Esther Adler, and Édouard Kopp ; with contributions by Esther Adler, Kathleen Ash-Milby, Mary Broadway, Clara Granzotto, Whitney Halstead, Édouard Kopp, Faheem Majeed, Laura K. Minton, Emily Olek, Mark Pascale, and Ken Sutherland.

Author

Yoakum, Joseph, 1886-1972

Publication

• Chicago, IL : Art Institute of Chicago, [2021]
• New Haven, CT : Distributed by Yale University Press
• ©2021

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Details

Additional Authors

• Pascale, Mark, 1954-
• Adler, Esther (Curator)
• Kopp, Édouard, 1974-
• Ash-Milby, Kathleen E.
• Broadway, Mary
• Granzotto, Clara
• Halstead, Whitney
• Majeed, Faheem, 1976-
• Minton, Laura K.
• Sutherland, Ken
• Art Institute of Chicago, host institution, publisher.
• Museum of Modern Art (New York, N.Y.), host institution.
• Menil Collection (Houston, Tex.), host institution.

Description

251 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), map; 32 cm

Summary

"Much of Joseph Elmer Yoakum's story comes from the artist himself--and is almost too fantastic to believe. At a young age, Yoakum (1891-1972) traveled the globe with numerous circuses; he later served in a segregated noncombat regiment during World War I before settling in Chicago. There, inspired by a dream, he began his artistic career at age seventy-one, producing some two thousand drawings over a decade. How did Yoakum gain representation in major museum collections in Chicago and New York? What fueled his process, which he described as a "spiritual unfoldment"? This volume delves into the friendships Yoakum forged with the Chicago Imagists that secured his place in art history, explores the religious outlook that may have helped him cope with a racially fractured city, and examines his complicated relationship to African American and Native American identities. With hundreds of beautiful color reproductions of his dreamlike drawings, it offers the most comprehensive study of the artist's work, illuminating his vivid and imaginative creativity and giving definition and dimension to his remarkable biography."--

Uniform Title

Works. Selections

Alternative Title

• Works.
• What I saw

Subject

• Yoakum, Joseph, 1886-1972 > Exhibitions
• Yoakum, Joseph, 1886-1972
• 1900-1999
• African American artists > Exhibitions
• African American painters > Exhibitions
• Outsider artists > Exhibitions
• Art, American > United States > 20th century > Exhibitions
• Outsider art > United States > Exhibitions
• Art, American
• Outsider art
• United States

Genre/Form

Exhibition catalogs.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (pages 232-233) and index.

Exhibitions (note)

• Published on the occasion of an exhibition at the Art Institute of Chicago, June 12-October 18, 2021; The Museum of Modern Art, New York, New York, November 28, 2021-March 19, 2022; and The Menil Collection, Houston, Texas, April 22-August 7, 2022.

Contents

Foreword / James Rondeau, Glenn D. Lowry, and Rebecca Rabinow -- Acknowledgments / Mark Pascale, Esther Adler, and Édouard Kopp -- Note to the reader -- Revisiting Joseph E. Yoakum's Chicago legacy / Mark Pascale -- The fantastical reality of Joseph E. Yoakum : a chronology / Emily Olek -- Where the sun neither sheds light nor creates shade / Édouard Kopp -- Unfolding Joseph E. Yoakum : Christian Science and life of the south side / Esther Adler -- Joseph E. Yoakum : first esteemed Nava-Joe artist on Chicago south side in year 1962 to 1972 / Faheem Majeed -- "Back where I was born" : Joseph E. Yoakum and the imaginary Indian / Kathleen Ash-Milby -- Paging through places : the sketchbooks / Laura K. Minton -- Exploring the terrain of Joseph E. Yoakum's landscapes : methods and materials / Mary Broadway, Ken Sutherland, and Clara Granzotto -- Works -- Joseph E. Yoakum / Whitney Halstead -- Exhibition history -- Selected bibliography -- Checklist of the exhibition -- Contributors -- Index.

Call Number

Sc+ G 22-18

ISBN

• 9780300257489
• 0300257481

LCCN

2021930499

OCLC

1255867661

Author

Yoakum, Joseph, 1886-1972, artist.

Title

Joseph E. Yoakum : what I saw / edited by Mark Pascale, Esther Adler, and Édouard Kopp ; with contributions by Esther Adler, Kathleen Ash-Milby, Mary Broadway, Clara Granzotto, Whitney Halstead, Édouard Kopp, Faheem Majeed, Laura K. Minton, Emily Olek, Mark Pascale, and Ken Sutherland.

Publisher

Chicago, IL : Art Institute of Chicago, [2021]

Distributor

New Haven, CT : Distributed by Yale University Press

Copyright Date

©2021

Edition

First edition.

Type of Content

text

still image

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references (pages 232-233) and index.

Exhibitions

Published on the occasion of an exhibition at the Art Institute of Chicago, June 12-October 18, 2021; The Museum of Modern Art, New York, New York, November 28, 2021-March 19, 2022; and The Menil Collection, Houston, Texas, April 22-August 7, 2022.

Chronological Term

1900-1999

Local Subject

Black author.

Added Author

Pascale, Mark, 1954- editor.

Adler, Esther (Curator), editor, contributor.

Kopp, Édouard, 1974- editor, contributor.

Ash-Milby, Kathleen E., contributor.

Broadway, Mary, contributor.

Granzotto, Clara, contributor.

Halstead, Whitney, contributor.

Majeed, Faheem, 1976- contributor.

Minton, Laura K., contributor.

Sutherland, Ken, contributor.

Art Institute of Chicago, host institution, publisher.

Museum of Modern Art (New York, N.Y.), host institution.

Menil Collection (Houston, Tex.), host institution.

Research Call Number

Sc+ G 22-18

JQG 22-93