William Hawkins: Paintings - Hardcover

Hawkins, William Lawrence; Maresca, Frank; Ricco, Frank; Ricco, Roger

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0679450750 ISBN 13: 9780679450757

Publisher: Alfred a Knopf Inc, 1997

Synopsis

The first book of paintings - 121 reproductions - by a brilliant twentieth-century folk artist: a self-taught master, who began to paint when he was ten years old and won national recognition at the age of eighty-five.
William Hawkins was born and raised on a small Kentucky farm. Needing to express himself, he used whatever materials were at hand - glossy enamels (ordinary house paints), large pieces of Masonite, heavy paper or cardboard rescued from trash heaps. He painted continuously, earning his living as a truck driver, among other things. His intense, wondrous, quirky paintings are filled with images - startling and playful - that derive from an unruly but inspired sense of freedom and humor. Here are wild animals - an elephant with a striped tusk and trunk... a stag, wide-eyed and startled, looking out from a masklike face; cityscapes; historical and modern landmark architecture; images made from photographs; a red Ferris wheel; a short humpbacked creature with a cone hat, a beak, and a single, pasted-on eye.

About this title

About the Author:

Frank Maresca and Roger Ricco are among the country's most distinguished collectors and dealers of outsider art. They have  played a crucial role in gaining recognition for self-taught artists, both through their gallery, the Ricco/Maresca Gallery in New York City, and through their collaboration on several books, including Bill Traylor, American Self-Taught, and American Primitive.

About this edition

• Publisher: Alfred a Knopf Inc
• Publication date: 1997
• ISBN 10: 0679450750
• ISBN 13: 9780679450757
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 127
• Editor: Sullivan Constance