LEON KENNEDY Signed Ink Drawing OUTSIDER Visionary Black Folk Art MUSEUM Listed
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LEON KENNEDY Signed Ink Drawing OUTSIDER Visionary Black Folk Art MUSEUM Listed:
$600.00
Drawing on card stockSIGNED by LEON KENNEDY.
LEON KENNEDY (American,b. 1945, Houston, Texas)
“God Lifting Me Up”
Drawing Measures: 18” x 12”
Condition: Excellent condition
Materials: ink pen and marker on heavy card stock.
Subject: Spiritual Figure.
Date: 2015
Signed and dated on front and back.
This work by Leon Kennedy is documented and archived for provenance. It is included in his digitalcatalogue raisonné.
Additional Images show Leon Kennedy entry in Rosnak book (not included in sale).
African-American spiritual visionary Leon Kennedy (b. 1945, Houston, Texas) uses mixed media on found objects to paint ecstatic visions, memory paintings, and urban life portraits. Kennedy is featured on several pages of Rosnak\'s \"Contemporary American Folk Art\" (Abbeville, 1996), and in Betty-Carol Sellen\'s important survey, \"Self Taught, Outsider, and Folk Art\" (McFarland & Company, 1999).
In 1997, the Smithsonian Institution purchased 200 significant works from the renowned Rosenak collection for an undisclosed sum estimated to be near $2M. This acquisition included a bed-sheet by Kennedy. The 1997 Folk Art Messenger, Vol. 10, No.3, reported that the acquisition makes the Smithsonian American Art Museum the world\'s preeminent repository for American self-taught art.
\"It is our desire to see them as part of the history of 20th-century American art,\" said Chuck Rosenak.
Mentioning Kennedy, the article notes these works were the first American collection exhibited at the Collection de l\'Art Brut, Switzerland, which \"testifies to its quality and uniqueness.\" The Leon Kennedy masterwork now resides at the Smithsonian American Art Museum, while photos of Kennedy and other materials of Kennedy\'s are available for study at the National Archives in Washington, D.C.
Collections
Smithsonian American Art Museum.
The House of Blues.
American Visionary Art Museum.
Ames Gallery
Solo Exhibitions
2009 – A440 Gallery, AMERICAN VISIONARY, San Francisco, CA
2005 – Kings Gallery, San Francisco Unitarian Universalist Church
2000 – Oakland City Hall, Oakland, CA
1996 – Good Samaritan Baptist Church, Oakland, CA
1995 – La Pena Cultural Center, Berkeley, CA
1992 – West Berkeley Senior Citizens Center, Berkeley, CA
1988 – Richmond City Hall, Richmond, CA
Group Shows
– New York Outsider Art Fair
2007 – Revolving Museum, Lowell, MA, \"Race Class Gender\"
2006 – American Visionary Art Museum, Baltimore, MD, \"Race Class Gender\"
2005 – Robert Cargo Gallery, PA, \"The Dream Lives On\"
2005 – Richmond Art Center, Richmond, CA
2003 – Black Box, Oakland, CA, \"Absolute Reflection\"
2000 – San Francisco Arts Commission \"Extraordinary Artists,\" The Ames Gallery
2000 – SOMArts Gallery, San Francisco, CA
1999 – Visual Aid\'s \"Big Deal\"
1997 – Collection de l\'Art Brut, Lausanne, Switzerland
1996 – Sheppard Art Gallery, University of Nevada, Reno, NV, \"Memories and Visions\"
1994 – African American Museum, Dallas, TX
1994 –Skyline College, San Bruno, CA, \"Emerging Talent: African American Artists of CA\"
1992 – California State University, Hayward, CA, \"Vernacular Art\"
1992 – 2000 – Berkeley Civic Arts Commission, Berkeley, CA (Windows Project)
1991 – Creative Growth Art Center, Oakland, CA, \"The Gospel Connection\" with Louis Estape
Bibliography
Contemporary American Folk Art: A Collectors Guide. ROSENAK, CHUCK and JAN ROSENAK, New York: Abbeville, 1996.
The Folk Art Messenger. Vol. 10, No. 3, Spring, Summer 1997.
Self Taught, Outsider, and Folk Art. Betty-Carol Sellen, (McFarland & Company, 1999).
Black Creation: A Quarterly Review of Black Arts and Letters. Vol. 4 (Fall 1972). Beauford, Fred, ed.
The Black Artist in America: An Index to Reproductions, THOMISON, DENNIS. Metuchen: Scarecrow Press, 1991. LEON KENNEDY Signed Ink Drawing OUTSIDER Visionary Black Folk Art MUSEUM Listed:
$600.00