Research Catalog

Title

• Let it shine : self-taught art from the T. Marshall Hahn Collection / essays by Lynne E. Spriggs, Joanne Cubbs, Lynda Roscoe Hartigan ; catalogue by Susan Mitchell Crawley ; photography by Peter Harholdt.

Publication

Atlanta : High Museum of Art ; Jackson, Miss. : Distributed by the University Press of Mississippi, c2001.

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Additional Authors

• Crawley, Susan Mitchell.
• Cubbs, Joanne.
• Hartigan, Lynda Roscoe.
• High Museum of Art.
• Spriggs, Lynne E., 1960-

Description

175 p. : ill. (chiefly col.), ports. (some col.); 32 cm.

Summary

During 1996 and 1997 T. Marshall Hahn donated a substantial portion of his collection of contemporary folk art to the High Museum of Art in Atlanta. His gift was the first major collection of self-taught art primarily from the South to be given to a general interest American museum. This book is published in conjunction with the first public exhibition of the Hahn Collection. The collection comprises more than 140 paintings, works on paper, and sculptures-the creations of more than thirty artists. Especially strong in works by African Americans from the South, it includes work by Ned Catledge, Thornton Dial, Sr., Sam Doyle, Howard Finster, William Hawkins, Mattie Lou O'Kelley, Elijah Pierce, Nellie Mae Rowe, Bill Traylor, Raymond Coins, Henry Darger, Minnie Evans, Lonnie Holley, Sister Gertrude Morgan, John W. Perates, Martin Ramirez, Herbert Singleton, and Joseph E. Yoakum. Let It Shine, a full-color catalog of the exhibition, features works by these artists as well as an interview with Marshall Hahn conducted by Lynne Spriggs, curator of folk art at the museum.

Subject

• African American art > Exhibitions
• Art > Atlanta > Exhibitions
• Art, American > 20th century > Exhibitions
• Art, American > Southern States > 20th century > Exhibitions
• Hahn, T. Marshall 1926- > Art collections > Exhibitions
• High Museum of Art > Exhibitions
• Outsider art > Southern States > Exhibitions
• Outsider art > United States > Exhibitions
• Primitivism in art > Southern States > Exhibitions
• Primitivism in art > United States > Exhibitions

Genre/Form

Atlanta (Ga., 2001)

Note

• Published in conjunction with an exhibition organized by and held at the High Museum of Art, Atlanta, June 23-Sept. 2, 2001.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 156-159) and index of artists.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Foreword / Michael E. Shapiro -- Remembering the road : T. Marshall Hahn and the High Museum of Art / Lynne E. Spriggs -- New geography : mapping meaning in self-taught art from the South / Joanne Cubbs -- From the Sahara of the Bozart to The shoe that rode the howling tornado : collecting folk art in the South / Lynda Roscoe Hartigan -- Catalogue / Susan Mitchell Crawley -- Checklist of the T. Marshall Hahn Collection -- Artists' biographies / Susan Mitchell Crawley.

ISBN

1578063639

LCCN

^^^00136380^

OCLC

• 47093070
• m47093070

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library