Bibliography and Exhibitions

MONOGRAPHS AND SOLO EXHIBITIONS:

GENERAL BOOKS AND GROUP EXHIBITIONS:

ARNETT, PAUL and WILLIAM, eds.
Souls Grown Deep: African American Vernacular Art of the South Vol. 1: The Tree Gave the Dove a Leaf.
Atlanta: Tinwood Books, 2000.
544 pp., 756 color plates, 55 b&w illus. Texts by 37 major scholars and African American writers (including a brilliant piece by Amiri Baraka), bibliog., index. Artists include: Jesse Aaron, Leroy Almon, Sr., Benny Andrews, George Andrews, Steve Ashby, Eldren M. Bailey, Hawkins Bolden, Richard Burnside, Vernon Burwell, Archie Byron, Ulysses S. Davis, Arthur Dial, Thornton Dial Sr., Thornton Dial, Jr., Sam Doyle, William Edmondson, Minnie Evans, Nora Ezell, Ralph Griffin, Dilmus Hall, Sandy Hall, James Hampton, Alyne Harris, Bessie Harvey, William Hawkins, Theodore Hill, Lonnie Holley, Clementine Hunter, Anderson Johnson, Frank Jones, Joe Light, Ronald Lockett, Charlie Lucas, J.T. McCord, Joe Minter, Sister Gertrude Morgan, J. B. Murry, Elijah Pierce, Harriet Powers, Royal Robertson, Juanita Rogers, Nellie Mae Rowe, Lorenzo Scott, Herbert Singleton, Mary Tillman Smith, Georgia Alice Speller, Henry Speller, Jimmie Lee Sudduth, James Son Thomas, Mose Tolliver, Bill Traylor, Luster Willis, Joseph E. Yoakum, Dinah Young, Purvis Young, and others. Large sq. 4to, cloth, d.j. First ed.

ATLANTA (GA). Barbara Archer Gallery.
Figure 8.
March 8-April 16, 2005.
Featuring eight artists’ interpretations of the human figure. African American artists in the show included: Dilmus Hall, Sindy Lutz, Mose Tolliver.

ATLANTA (GA). High Museum of Art at Georgia-Pacific Center.
Outside the Main Stream: Folk Art in Our Time.
May-August, 1988.
Group exhibition. Artists included: Jesse Aaron, Leroy Almon, Sr., Zebedee Armstrong, Jr., Charles Burwell, David Butler, Ulysses Davis, Richard Dial, Dan Dial, Thornton Dial, Sr., Thornton Dial, Jr., Sam Doyle, William Edmondson, Minnie Evans, Ralph Griffin, Dilmus Hall, Bessie Harvey, Lonnie Holley, Clementine Hunter, Joe Louis Light, Charlie Lucas, Sister Gertrude Morgan, J. B. Murry, Leroy Person, Daniel Pressley, Juanita Rogers, Nellie Mae Rowe, Mary T. Smith, Henry Speller, Georgia Speller, Mose Tolliver, Bill Traylor.

ATLANTA (GA). New Vision Gallery of Contemporary Art.
Another Face of the Diamond: Pathways Through the Black Atlantic South.
New York: INTAR, 1989.
68 pp. exhib. cat., 45 illus. (30 in color), biogs., checklist of 49 works by 11 artists including: Archie Byron, Hawkins Bolden, Thornton Dial, Minnie Evans, Ralph Griffin, Dilmus Hall, Lonnie Holley, Joe Light, Charlie Lucas, J.B. Murry, Mary T. Smith. Substantial texts by Judith McWillie, Robert F. Thompson, John Mason. Small sq. 4to, pictorial wraps. First ed.

FINE, GARY ALAN.
Everyday Genius: Self-Taught Art and the Culture of Authenticity.
Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2004.
340 pp., illus., index. Includes over fifty African American artists: Jesse Aaron, Leroy Almon, George Andrews, Steve Ashby, Amiri Baraka, Jean-Michel Basquiat, Roger Brown, David Butler, Archie Byron, Ulysses S. Davis, William Dawson, Thornton Dial, Sam Doyle, William Edmondson, Minnie Evans, Walter Flax, Sybil Gibson, Tyree Guyton, Dilmus Hall, James Hampton, Bessie Harvey, Gerald Hawkes, William L. Hawkins, Lonnie Holley, Clementine Hunter, Willie Jinks, Frank Albert Jones, Eddie Lee Kendrick, Ronald Lockett, Charlie Lucas, Sister Gertrude Morgan, J. B. Murry, Inez Nathaniel-Walker, Leslie Payne, David Philpot, Elijah Pierce, Horace Pippin, Nellie Mae Rowe, Kevin Sampson, Earl Simmons, Bernice Sims, Herbert Singleton, Charles Smith, Mary T. Smith, Jimmie Lee Sudduth, James (Son) Thomas, Mose Tolliver, Bill Traylor, Gregory Warmack (Mr. Imagination), George White, George Williams, Luster Willis, Joseph Yoakum, Purvis Young. Small 4to (9 x 6.3 in.), cloth, d.j. First ed.

GOEKJIAN, KAREKIN and ROBERT PEACOCK.
Light of the Spirit: Portraits of Southern Outsider Artists.
Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, 1998.
118 pp., color plates and photos of artists, biogs. Foreword by Donald Kuspit; intro. by Gerard C. Wertkin; texts by Goekjian and Peacock. Roughly half of the artists are African American: Thornton Dial, Sr., Dilmus Hall, Lonnie Holley, Ronald Lockett, A. J. Mohammed, Sultan Rogers, Earl Simmons, Jimmie Lee Sudduth, Mose Tolliver. 4to (10.3 x 10.3 in.), cloth, d.j. First ed.

HUNTINGTON (WV). Huntington Museum of Art.
O, Appalachia: Artists of the Southern Mountains.
1989.
Group exhibition. Included: Dilmus Hall, Charlie Lucas.

MCWILLIE, JUDY and GREY GUNDAKER.
No Space Hidden: The Spirit of African American Yard Work.
Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 2005.
264 pp., 197 illus. (19 in color.) Presents an invaluable amount of new material both in the number of artists discussed and the analysis of their common imagery and concerns. Includes: Zebedee B. Armstrong, E.M. Bailey, Hawkins Bolden, Cyrus Bowens, Henry Craig, Henry Luke Faust, Ralph Griffin, Dilmus Hall, Estelle Hamler, James Hampton, Bishop Washington Harris, Bessie Harvey, Sam Hogue, Lonnie Holley, Olivia Humphrey, Rev. George Kornegay, Bennie Lusane, Victor Melancon, Robert Montgomery, J.B. Murry, Mary Tillman Smith, Annie Sturghill, Eddie Williamson, Robert Watson, and others. 8vo (26 x 21 cm.), wraps.

MILLER, JOYCE.
The African Influence on Vernacular African-American Visual Arts in the South.
1991.
In: Mississippi Folklore Register 25 & 26 (1991-92):51-56. Includes mention of: James Hampton, J. B. Murray, Cyrus Bowens, Mary Tillman Smith, Dilmus Hall, Henry Dorsey, Joe Light, Sultan Rogers, Jesse Aaron, and James "Son Ford" Thomas.

OWENSBORO (KY). Owensboro Museum of Fine Art.
Crossroads: Spirituality in American Folk Traditions.
November 17, 2007-February 24, 2008.
144 pp. exhib. cat., color illus. Texts by theologians, folk life specialists and historians. Included: Leroy Almon, Prophet William Blackmon, Minnie Evans, Josephus Farmer, Dilmus Hall, Bessie Harvey, Clementine Hunter, Helen LaFrance, Sister Gertrude Morgan, J.B. Murry, Elijah Pierce, Sultan Rogers, Lorenzo Scott, Bernice Sims, Herbert Singleton, Mary T. Smith, Jimmie Lee Sudduth, Sarah Mary Taylor, James Son Thomas, Mose Tolliver.

RICCO, ROGER, FRANK MARESCA and JULIA WEISSMAN.
American Primitive: Discoveries in Folk Sculpture.
New York: Knopf, 1988.
Identifiable African American artists include: Jesse Aaron, Hawkins Bolden, David Butler, William Edmondson, Rev. Josephus Farmer, Dilmus Hall, Bessie Harvey, Leroy Person, Elijah Pierce, Philadelphia Wireman.

RUSSELL, CHARLES, ed.
Self-taught Art: the Culture and Aesthetics of American Vernacular Art.
Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, 2001.
x, 201 pp., 32 pp. plates (some in color), substantial bibliography, index. Outstanding collection of 11 critical essays on vernacular art by Charles Russell, Ellen Dissanayake, Michael Owen Jones, Arthur C. Danto, Roger Cardinal, Russell Bowman, Randall Morris, Sharon Patton, Maude Southwell Wahlman, and Alison Weld. Artists mentioned include: Jesse Aaron, Steve Ashby, Hawkins Bolden, David Scott Brown, Roger Brown, David Butler, Archie Byron, Henry Rae Clark, Arthur Dial, Buddy Jake Dial, Mattie Dial, Thornton Dial, Sam Doyle, William Edmondson, Minnie Evans, Ralph Griffin, Tyree Guyton, Dilmus Hall, James Hampton, Bessie Harvey, Gerald Hawkes, William Hawkins, Lonnie Holley, Clementine Hunter, Hector Hyppolite, Frank Jones, Joe Light, Ronald Lockett, Sister Gertrude Morgan, J.B. Murry, Leroy Person, Elijah Pierce, Horace Pippin, Pearlie Posey, Harriet Powers, Royal Robertson, Juanita Rogers, Nellie Mae Rowe, Mary T. Smith, Jimmie Lee Sudduth, Sarah Mary Taylor, James (Son) Thomas, Mose Tolliver, Bill Traylor, Horace Pippin, Joseph Yoakum, and Purvis Young. 4to (26 cm), cloth. First ed.

RUSSELL, CHARLES, ed.
Self-Taught Art: The Culture and Aesthetics of American Vernacular Art.
Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, 2001.
201 pp., 32 color plates, 72 b&w illus., index. Texts by Russell Bowman, Roger Cardinal, Arthur C. Danto, Ellen Dissanayake, Michael Owen Jones, Randall Morris, Sharon Patton, Charles Russell, Maude Southwell Wahlman, and Alison Weld. Includes: Jesse Aaron, Z.B. Armstrong, Jean-Michel Basquiat, David Butler, Henry Ray Clark, Archie Byron, Arthur Dial, Buddie Jake Dial, Mattie Dial, Thornton Dial, Sam Doyle, Arester Earl, William Edmondson, Minnie Evans, Ralph Griffin, Tyree Guyton, Dilmus Hall, James Hampton, Bessie Harvey, Gerald Hawkes, William Hawkins, Lonnie Holley, Clementine Hunter, Hector Hyppolite, Clyde Jones, Frank Albert Jones, Joe Light, Ronald Lockett, Errol McKenzie, Sister Gertrude Morgan, J.B. Murry, Leroy Person, Elijah Pierce, Horace Pippin, Pearlie Posey, Harriet Powers, Royal Robertson, Juanita Rogers, Nellie Mae Rowe, Bernice Sims, Mary T. Smith, Henry Speller, Renee Stout, Jimmie Lee Sudduth, Rev. Johnnie Swearingen, Sarah Mary Taylor, James "Son" Thomas, Mose Tolliver, Bill Traylor, Charles Williams (Kentucky sculptor), Joseph Yoakum. 4to (11.8 x 6.4 in.)

SAVANNAH (GA). Barbara Archer Gallery.
Sculpture.
February 4-June 14, 2006.
Group exhibition. Included: Dilmus Hall.

SELLEN, BETTY-CAROL and CYNTHIA J JOHANSON.
Self-Taught, Outsider, and Folk Art: A Guide to American Artists, Locations and Resources.
Jefferson (NC): McFarland, 2000.
Compilation of American folk, outsider and self taught artists. It also includes gallery locations, fairs, festivals, exhibitions, auctions and organizations. The majority of the book is devoted to brief biographical sketches. Includes: Jesse Aaron, Leroy Almon, George Andrews, Z. B. Armstrong, Steve Ashby, John W. Banks, Hawkins Bolden, Bruce Brice, Richard Burnside, Vernon Burwell, David Butler, W. A. Cooper, Walter F. Cotton, L. W. Crawford, Ulysses Davis, William Dawson, Mattie Dial, Thornton Dial, Sr., Thornton Dial, Jr., Sam Doyle, Vanzant Driver, William Edmondson, Minnie Evans, Amos Ferguson, Marvin Finn, Thomas Jefferson Flanagan, Ezekiel Gibbs, William O. Golding, Mary Gordon, Ralph Griffin, Dilmus Hall, James Hampton, Bob "Fan Man" Harper, Bessie Harvey, William Hawkins, Geoffrey Holder, Lonnie Holley, Sylvanus Hudson, Clementine Hunter, Alvin Jarrett, Anderson Johnson, M. C. Five-Cents Jones, Joe Light [and Light Family: Hosea Light, Mosea Light, Rachele Light, Rebekah Light, Rosie Lee Light], Ronald Lockett, Jesse Lott, Annie Lucas, Charlie Lucas, John W. Mason, Willie Massey, Jake T. McCord, Mr. Imagination, Ike Morgan, Sister Gertrude Morgan, Emma Lee Moss, J. B. Murry, Sammie Nicely, Leslie Payne, Leroy Person, Philadelphia Wireman, David Philpot, Elijah Pierce, Horace Pippin, Naomi Polk, Daniel Pressley, Royal Robertson, Juanita Rogers, Sulton Rogers, Nellie Mae Rowe, J. P. Scott, Edward Smith, Mary T. Smith, Georgia Speller, Henry Speller, Vannoy Streeter, Jimmy Lee Sudduth, Rev. Johnnie Swearingen, Willie Tarver, Sarah Mary Taylor, James "Son" Thomas, Annie Tolliver, Charles Tolliver, Mose Tolliver, Willie Mae Tolliver, Bill Traylor, Felix Virgous, Inez Nathaniel Walker, Arliss Watford, Willard Watson, Derek Webster, Della Wells, George White, Willie White, Lizzie Wilkerson, "Artist Chuckie" Williams, Jeff Williams, Luster Willis, Onis Woodard, Joseph Yoakum. 8vo, wraps.

TALLAHASSEE (FL). Florida State University Art Gallery and Museum.
Unsigned, Unsung.. Whereabouts Unknown!: Make-Do Art of the American Outlands.
February 5-March 7, 1993.
80 pp. exhib. cat., 32 color plates, 12 b&w illus. Curated by Jim Roche. Essays on the history and state of African American art in America, includes anecdotal vignettes on some of the artists: Jesse James Aaron, Henry Ray Clark, Thornton Dial, Sr., John Ellis, Minnie Evans, Ezekiel Gibbs, Dilmus Hall, Bessie Harvey, John Harvey, Frank Jones, Daniel Pressley, Roger Rice, O.L. Samuels, Henry Speller, Rev. Johnnie Swearingen, James (Son) Thomas, Inez Nathaniel-Walker, Willard (Texas Kid) Watson, Hugh (Big Daddy) Williams, Philadelphia Wireman, et al. 4to, wraps. First ed.

WERTKIN, GERALD C., ed.
Encyclopedia of American Folk Art.
New York: Routledge, 2003.
704 pp., eight 16-page full-color inserts, 100 b&w photos. Individual entries on over 500 artists (including only 49 African American artists), bibliogs. written by folk art experts. The entry on African American Folk Art states that approximately 10% of American vernacular artists are African American, noting however that their presence in recent exhibitions of American folk art is closer to 30%. Indeed, dozens of other African American artists are mentioned elsewhere throughout the entries. Entries on Santeria arts, Vodou art are largely theoretical and iconographic. Artists include: Jesse Aaron, Leroy Almon, Zebedee Armstrong, Steve Ashby, Mozell Benson, William H. Brown, Hawkins Bolden, Richard Burnside, David Butler, Archie Byron, Dave [the Potter], Ulysses Davis, William Dawson, Arthur Dial, Richard Dial, Thornton Dial, Sr., Thornton Dial, Jr., Sam Doyle, William Edmondson, Minnie Evans, Rev. Josephus Farmer, Sybil Gibson, William O. Golding, Dilmus Hall, James Hampton, Bessie Harvey, William Hawkins, Clementine Hunter, Anderson Johnson, Joshua Johnson (as Johnston), Joe Louis Light, Frank Jones, Ronald Lockett, Charlie Lucas, Sister Gertrude Morgan, J. B. Murry, Leroy Person, Elijah Pierce, Horace Pippin, Harriet Powers, Royal Robertson, Juanita Rogers, Nellie Mae Rowe, Ellis Ruley, Lorenzo Scott, Herbert Singleton, Mary T. Smith, Simon Sparrow, Henry Speller, Queena Stovall, Jimmie Lee Sudduth, Rev. Johnnie Swearingen, James (Son Ford) Thomas, Mose Tolliver, Bill Traylor, Inez Nathaniel-Walker, Gregory Warmack (Mr. Imagination), Yvonne Wells. [White artist Queena Stovall is listed in the index as African American.] 4to (11.3 x 8.4 in.), hardbound. First ed.