"This volume was published on the occasion of the Figge Art Museum's traveling exhibition"--Title page verso. "Columbus Museum of Art, Ohio, February 16-May 20, 2018 ; Mingei International Museum, June 9-September 3, 2018 ; Figge Art Museum September 22-December 30, 2018 ; The Columbus Museum, Georgia, January 28-April 29, 2019"--Title page verso. Includes bibliographical references (page 190). "William L. Hawkins: an Imaginative Geography" : February 16-May 20, 2018, Columbus Museum of Art, Columbus, Ohio, United States. "William L. Hawkins: an Imaginative Geography" : June 9-September 3, 2018, Mingei International Museum, San Diego, California, United States. "William L. Hawkins: an Imaginative Geography" : September 22-December 30, 2018, Figge Art Museum, Davenport, Iowa, United States. "William L. Hawkins: an Imaginative Geography" : January 28-April 29, 2019, the Columbus Museum, Columbus, Georgia, United States.
Contents:
Director's foreword -- Curator's Preface and Acknowledgments -- Popular Images-Personal Visions: The Art of William Hawkins / Gary J. Schwindler -- The Ecstatic Play of William Hawkins / Susan Mitchell Crawley -- The Power of Imagination / Curlee Raven Holton -- William Hawkins: Navigating Realities: some musings on folk art, self-taught artists, constructed art canons, and culture as a web of exchange / Michael D. Hall -- Roads Diverged: William L. Hawkins and Elijah Pierce in Columbus / Barbara R. Nicholson and Deidre Hamlar -- The Golden Book of William Hawkins / Jennifer P. Borum.
Summary:
Although he has long enjoyed a prominent place in the canon of self-taught artists, the Ohio painter William Lawrence Hawkins (1895-1990) has received less than his fair share of attention in recent times. This monograph - the first in 20 years - introduces Hawkins exuberant paintings to a wider audience at a time when more and more general museums are recognizing the powerful appeal of America's self-taught artists. Focusing on the artist's most aesthetically successful, confident and characteristic works, it brings special attention to his use of space, his collage practice and his work in series, of which his nine Last Suppers are perhaps the most extensive example.drawn from important public and private collections across the United States, 'William L. Hawkins: An Imaginative Geography' includes approximately 50 of Hawkins most important paintings, both well-known pieces and others rarely seen. All of Hawkins's favorite subjects are covered here, including cityscapes, landscapes, exotic places, animals, current events, historic scenes and religious scenes. Also reproduced are a rarely seen assemblage and a selection from his large oeuvre of drawings.Exhibition: Columbus Museum of Art, Columbus, Ohio, USA (16.2-20.5.2018); Mingei International Museum, San Diego, USA (2.6-26.8.2018); Figge Art Museum, Davenport, USA (22.9-30.12.2018); The Columbus Museum, Columbus, Georgia, USA (29.1-28.4.2019).
This resource is supported by the Institute of Museum and Library Services under the provisions of the Library Services and Technology Act as administered by State Library of Iowa.