BGuthrie Photos: DC -- Donald W. Reynolds Center (SAAM) -- Exhibit: Folk Art

DC -- Donald W. Reynolds Center (SAAM) -- Exhibit: Folk Art:

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Specific picture descriptions: Photos above with "i" icons next to the bracketed sequence numbers (e.g. "[1] ") are described as follows:
1. SIPGFA_201015_011.JPG: James Doyle, St. Helena's First Black Driver, ca 1982 Sam Doyle
2. SIPGFA_201015_016.JPG: Untitled (Mountain Lion Spirit Figure), about 1961-64 Charlie Willeto
3. SIPGFA_201015_020.JPG: Design Made at Airlie Gardens, 1987 Minnie Evans
4. SIPGFA_201015_027.JPG: Seminole Indian Summer Camp, ca 1963 Earl Cunningham
5. SIPGFA_201015_036.JPG: Personal Vision
6. SIPGFA_201015_041.JPG: Untitled (Twins) Eddy Mumma
7. SIPGFA_201015_044.JPG: Untitled (Figure with White Eyebrows), about 1978-86 Eddy Mumma
8. SIPGFA_201015_057.JPG: 2 Dogs -- 3 Bandsmen; and Camera, 1963 Jon Serl Figure, 1967 Jon Serl
9. SIPGFA_201015_064.JPG: Orange Bus, ca 1982 Dwight Mackintosh
10. SIPGFA_201015_069.JPG: Give Us This Day Our Daily Bread, ca 1955-70 Alexander Bogardy
11. SIPGFA_201015_074.JPG: The Clinic, ca 1965-70 Alexander Bogardy
12. SIPGFA_201015_081.JPG: The First Law of Nature -- Not Self Preservation But Love, 1939 Patrick J. Sullivan
13. SIPGFA_201015_098.JPG: Untitled (Hart/Heart) Ulysses Davis
14. SIPGFA_201015_103.JPG: Magnolia Blossoms, around 1935-41 Josephine Joy
15. SIPGFA_201015_108.JPG: The Struggle, 1973-74 Purvis Young
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Description of Subject Matter: Introductory sign for this gallery:
When the museum approached me to curate their folk art galleries, it thrilled me to no end to be associated with these "folk" and their creations. Growing up in Alabama during the 1940s and 50s, I was fortunate to live among many individuals for whom making things was a natural part of life. I treasure memories of sitting by my mother as she quilted, and watching my father carve tools out of wood -- what he called "just whittling and piddling." So I have had a deep interest and affection for such everyday objects -- long before the public caught on to them as folk art. By osmosis more than anything else, this kind of art has had a profound effect on my thinking about how and why people create.
These men and women whose work is presented here are not bound by aspirations to make "high art." With liberty to freely express what is in their hears and minds through all varieties of methods and materials familiar to them, these artists create works that possess unmistakable honesty and integrity. Sometimes the result is terrifying, and sometimes it is the most wonderful image that makes you feel good or laugh. This work is beautiful and so human. It is the ordinary made extraordinary.
William Christenberry, 2006
Artist and teacher, Washington DC

Pictures here usually include James Hampton's "The Throne of the Third Heaven of the Nations' Millennium General Assembly." Hampton worked on the piece for 14 years 1950-64 while living in Washington DC, building it in a renter garage. He made 180 components but only a portion are on display in the museum. He created notebooks bearing a secret writing system which has yet to be deciphered. He was a little odd.
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2020 photos: Well, that was a year, wasn't it? The COVID-19 pandemic cut off most events here in DC after March 11. The child president's handling of the pandemic was a series of disastrous missteps and lies, encouraging his minions to not wear masks and dramatically increasing infections and deaths here.The BLM protests started in June, made all the worse by the child president's inability to have any empathy for anyone other than himself. Then of course he tried to steal the election in November. What a year! Trips: Because of COVID, the farthest distance I traveled after that was about 40 miles. I only visited sites in four states -- Maryland, Virginia, West Virginia and DC -- and didn't do any overnight travel anywhere. That was the least amount of travel I had done since 1995. Equipment this year: I continued to use my Fuji XS-1 cameras but, depending on the event, I also used a Nikon D7000. Number of photos taken this year: about 246,000, the fewest number of photos I had taken in any year since 2007.
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