Inside the Outside: Five Self-Taught Artists from The William Louis-Dreyfus Foundation

Over the course of fifty years, William Louis-Dreyfus has collected over 3500 artworks including an important group of unique works by self-taught artists. Louis-Dreyfus’s collecting choices have been guided by a keen eye towards a freshness of expression and creative spirit. He was a pioneering collector of many of the artists represented in this show: Thornton Dial, Willie Young, Nellie Mae Rowe, Bill Traylor and James Castle. These artists are bound together by biography: little or no formal art education, born or raised in rural areas, started creating art late in life; and by their inexorable urge to create in response to personal visions as well as to visual stimuli from all aspects of their daily lives. Employing vastly different styles, techniques and materials, the work of these artists pulses with an inner passion and outer vibrancy.

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