CONTINUATION OF  OUR TOUR OF THE OGDEN MUSEUM SOUTHERN ART COLLECTION

You may call it outsider art or folk art, but there is an art throughout  the South that one sees that is done by untrained artist with simple perspective or no perspective.  The colors are often bright and the imagery is often religious or regional.

Clyde Broadway 
Trinity-Elcis and Jesus and Robert E. Lee              1994

Going Home                        Willie Birch 

Going Home by Willie Birch

Going Home tells the story of the children of the great migration as they return to the South.  Using a the simple medium of paper mache conveying an icon of simplicity as a symbol in itself.  The sculpture is offered like an open text for viewers to participate in.

                                                                               

Detail of Going Home

Jimmy Lee Sudduth                                               Cow

Douglas Bourgeois
Little Child Inside  1988