Judith Bledsoe

Peter Grimes, Surrealist Lithograph with Paper Collage by Judith Bledsoe

1975

Judith Bledsoe, American (1938 - 2013) - A Little Circus. Year: 1974, Medium: Portfolio of 14 Lithographs, each signed in pencil, Edition: HC, Size: 15 x 10.5 in. (38.1 x 26.67 cm)

Judith Bledsoe, American (1938 - 2013) - Remember San Francisco. Year: circa 1980, Medium: Lithograph and Blind Embossing, signed and dedicated in pencil, Edition: EA, Size: 24 x 3...

Judith Bledsoe, American (1938 - 2013) - Cats and Flowers. Year: circa 1980, Medium: Lithograph with Blind Embossing, signed in pencil, Edition: EA, Size: 24 x 35 in. (60.96 x 88.9 ...

Judith Bledsoe, American (1938 - 2013) - City Cats. Year: circa 1980, Medium: Lithographs on Black Tinted Paper, signed and dedicated in pencil, Edition: EA,...

An early drawing by this unique visionary artist, post Harvard Graduate School and concurrent with his apprenticeship to Frederick Kiesler

Joseph Yoakum Andes Mountains Peru So America, circa 1960s Colored pencil and ballpoint pen on paper 7 1/4 x 10 1/2 inches Provenance: Karen Lennox Gallery, Chicago Private Collection, South Dakota Yoakum began drawing in the early 1960s. Most of his work consists of radiantly colored landscapes with mountains, water, trees, and winding roads in abstract and complex configurations. his period of greatest activity — 1965 to 1970 — when he usually made one drawing a day. Yoakum maintained he had seen all the places represented in his drawings, a statement that may not be true in some instances. He traveled a great deal, beginning in his early teens when he ran away from home and became a circus handyman. Yoakum’s drawings can be considered memory images growing out of either actual or imagined experiences. All of his drawings have titles that grew longer and more specific over the years. He dated his works with a rubber stamp — an oddly impersonal, labor-saving device. Although Joseph Yoakum gave vastly different accounts of his background, he was, throughout his life, classified as an African American. Sometimes Yoakum claimed that he was a full-blooded ​“Nava-joe” Indian, one of twelve or thirteen children born to a farmer on an Indian reservation in Window Rock, Arizona. At other times he insisted that he was of African-American descent. He described his mother as a strong woman who was a doctor and knowledgeable in the use of herbal medicines. Yoakum’s family moved to Kansas City, Missouri, during his early childhood. His father was employed briefly in the railroad yards prior to settling permanently on a farm in nearby Walnut Grove...

Augustin Lesage is a French painter attached to the movement of art brut. Jean Dubuffet included the paintings of Lesage in his collection in 1948, onl...

Chinese New Year paintings (nian hua) are colorful folk paintings created to celebrate the annual Spring Festival. Drawn or printed by folk artists in regional studios, nian hua pain...