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2:21 - Fifth Avenue
2:39 - Times Square
3:00 - Central Park
3:23 - The Metropolitan Museum of Art
3:46 - The Guggenheim Museum
4:00 - Reflecting Absence Memorial
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4:49 - Greenwich Village
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Leon Kennedy-Visionary painting in Rosenak Contemporary American Folk Art Collectors Guide
African-American spiritual visionary Leon Kennedy (b. 1945, Houston, Texas) uses paint, pencil, marker, and mixed media on found objects to create ecstatic visions, memory paintings, and urban life portraits. His works are always about the power and grace of God. Kennedy is featured on several pages of Rosenak's Contemporary American Folk Art (Abbeville, 1996), and in Betty-Carol Sellen's important survey, Self Taught, Outsider, and Folk Art (McFarland & Company, 1999), to name a few.
In 1997, the Smithsonian Institution purchased a bed-sheet by Leon Kennedy, and 200 other artist's works from the renowned Rosenak folk art collection for an estimated $2,000,000.
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 Leon 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 painting now resides at the Smithsonian American Art Museum, while photos of Kennedy and other materials of Kennedy's are available for study at the archive at the National Archives in Washington, D.C.
Works available on eBay:
Leon Kennedy 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.
Country: United States
Books: Contemporary American Folk Art: A Collectors Guide.
Leon Kennedy Permanent Collections:
Smithsonian American Art Museum. Washington, DC.
National Museum of American Art. Washington, DC.
The House of Blues, multiple acquisitions.
Biblical Arts Museum. Dallas, TX
Leon Kennedy Solo Exhibitions:
2013 Telegraph Gallery, Oakland CA
2013 REDUX Gallery, Alemeda, CA
2012 Creative Reuse, Oakland, CA
2010 Inferno Gallery, Oakland, CA
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
(1967-1974) BlackMan's Art Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Exhibitions:
2010-2009 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
2004 Ames Gallery
2003 Black Box, Oakland, CA, Absolute Reflection
2000 San Francisco Arts Commission Extraordinary Artists, curated by Bonnie Grossman, 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: Self-Taught and Outsider Artists West of the Rockies
1994 African American Museum, Dallas, TX
1994 Skyline College, San Bruno, CA, Emerging Talent: African American Artists of California
1992 California State University, Hayward, CA, Vernacular Art
1992 2000 (annually) Berkeley Civic Arts Commission, Berkeley, CA (Windows Project)
1991 Creative Growth Art Center, Oakland, CA, The Gospel Connection with Louis Estape
Numerous Auction House records available online.
Infinity of Nations, National Museum of the American Indian in New York
INFINITY OF NATIONS
Art and History in the Collections of the National Museum of the American Indian
This ongoing exhibition presents more than 700 works of art from throughout Native North, Central, and South America. This unparalleled assemblage of American Indian cultural material represents the tremendous breadth of the collections and the remarkable richness of Native traditional and contemporary art. It also explores the historic importance of a significant number of these deeply cultural, profoundly social objects.
The Smithsonian's National Museum of the American Indian in New York, the George Gustav Heye Center, features exhibitions, performances, films and symposia that present the diversity of the Native people of the Americas and the strength and continuity of their cultures from the earliest times to the present.
The National Museum of the American Indian in New York is located at One Bowling Green, across from Battery Park, in the historic Alexander Hamilton U.S. Custom House.
Visiting Museum of International Folk Art, Cultural institute in Santa Fe, New Mexico, United States
The Museum of International Folk Art is a state-run institution in Santa Fe, New Mexico, United States. It is one of many cultural institutions operated by the New Mexico Department of Cultural Affairs.
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Great Walls | Museum of Human History: Ep. 104 | Topic
Good fences make good neighbors. For humans, at least.
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Visionary Artist Leon Kennedy at UPTOWN GALLERY
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.
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.
Country: United States
Books: Contemporary American Folk Art: A Collectors Guide.
Permanent collections
1997 Smithsonian American Art Museum (then the National Museum of American Art) acquisition.
1990 The House of Blues, multiple acquisitions.
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
2009 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, curated by Bonnie Grossman, 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: Self-Taught and Outsider Artists West of the Rockies
1994 African American Museum, Dallas, TX
1994 Skyline College, San Bruno, CA, Emerging Talent: African American Artists of California
1992 California State University, Hayward, CA, Vernacular Art
1992 2000 (annually) Berkeley Civic Arts Commission, Berkeley, CA (Windows Project)
1991 Creative Growth Art Center, Oakland, CA, The Gospel Connection with Louis Estape
Pop Art meets Buddha at Tibet House US: Hedy Klineman; Buddhas in the Garden
American Pop Artist Hedy Klineman's short Bio-video. Shown are her recent screen-prints and paintings of Buddhas in the Garden, a diverse exploration of images of Buddha statues collected by her over the years, submerged within her own gardens. Her Deities series was her concentration in the 1990's, exploring Easter Spirituality and Iconography. Since 2005, Hedy has worked on a series of Ancestral Spirits, African-American portraits. A brief introduction is also given to her work from the 60's; Abstract Expressionism, the 70's Color Field Paintings, and her 80's Fashion Portraits. Ms. Klineman calls Manhattan home, the most diverse and energetic city on earth, where she has been active and engaged with the New York City art scene. She has known and painted fashion portraits of Andy Warhol and other famous artists and figures of the Art World. She also maintains a painting studio in Barbados when not in NYC.
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Review of Hedy Klineman's solo-exhibition Ancestral Spirits, African-American Portraits at Smart Clothes Gallery, New York, NY:
American Museum of Natural History Highlights
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American Folk Art: Spiritual Leon Kennedy
American Folk Art: Spiritual Leon Kennedy
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.
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.
Country: United States
Books: Contemporary American Folk Art: A Collectors Guide.
Permanent collections
1997 Smithsonian American Art Museum (then the National Museum of American Art) acquisition.
1990 The House of Blues, multiple acquisitions.
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
2009 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, curated by Bonnie Grossman, 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: Self-Taught and Outsider Artists West of the Rockies
1994 African American Museum, Dallas, TX
1994 Skyline College, San Bruno, CA, Emerging Talent: African American Artists of California
1992 California State University, Hayward, CA, Vernacular Art
1992 2000 (annually) Berkeley Civic Arts Commission, Berkeley, CA (Windows Project)
1991 Creative Growth Art Center, Oakland, CA, The Gospel Connection with Louis Estape
Religion in American History: Moments of Crisis & Opportunity
As part of the annual meeting of the Library's Scholars Council, a panel of noted historians discussed the affect of religion and religious beliefs during moments of crisis and opportunity in American history.
Speaker Biography: John Witte is is the Robert W. Woodruff Professor of Law, McDonald Distinguished Professor and director of the Center for the Study of Law and Religion at Emory University. He is a specialist in legal history, marriage law and religious liberty. Witte's writings have appeared in 12 languages, and he has lectured and convened conferences in North America, Western and Eastern Europe, Japan, Israel, Australia, Hong Kong and South Africa. With major funding from the Pew, Ford, Lilly, Luce and McDonald foundations, he has directed 12 major international research projects on democracy, human rights and religious liberty, and on marriage, family and children. Witte is a past holder of the Kluge Center's Cary and Ann Maguire Chair in Ethics and American History.
Speaker Biography: Sarah Barringer Gordon, the Arlin M. Adams Professor of Constitutional Law and Professor of History at the University of Pennsylvania, is an expert on religion in American public life and the law of church and state, especially how religious liberty developed over the course of American history. She is a frequent commentator in news media on the constitutional law of religion and debates about religious freedom. Her current book project, Freedom's Holy Light: Disestablishment in America, 1776-1876, is about the historical relationships among religion, politics and law.
Speaker Biography: Peter Manseau is the Lilly Endowment Curator of American Religious History at the Smithsonian Institution's National Museum of American History. He is the author of six books, including the memoir Vows, the novel Songs for the Butcher's Daughter, the travelogue Rag and Bone, and the retelling of America's diverse spiritual formation One Nation, Under Gods. Manseau is the winner of the National Jewish Book Award, the American Library Association's Sophie Brody Medal for Outstanding Achievement in Jewish Literature, the Ribalow Prize for Fiction and a 2012 National Endowment for the Arts Literature Fellowship.
Speaker Biography: Ted Widmer is director of the John W. Kluge Center at the Library of Congress and the author or editor of many works of American history, including The New York Times Disunion: A History of the Civil War, Listening In: The Secret White House Tape Recordings of John F. Kennedy, Ark of the Liberties: America and the World and American Speeches, Martin Van Buren and Young America: The Flowering of Democracy in New York City.
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Visionary master Leon Kennedy. American outsider folk art masterpiece painting.
The visionary artwork of spiritual painter Leon Kennedy.
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.
Permanent collections
1997 Smithsonian American Art Museum (then the National Museum of American Art) acquisition.
1990 The House of Blues, multiple acquisitions.
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
2009 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, curated by Bonnie Grossman, 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: Self-Taught and Outsider Artists West of the Rockies
1994 African American Museum, Dallas, TX
1994 Skyline College, San Bruno, CA, Emerging Talent: African American Artists of California
1992 California State University, Hayward, CA, Vernacular Art
1992 2000 (annually) 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.
Country:United States
Books:Contemporary American Folk Art: A Collectors Guide.
American folk art spiritual visionary painter Leon Kennedy.
American folk art spiritual visionary painter Leon Kennedy.
Painting on sheet.
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.
Permanent collections
1997 Smithsonian American Art Museum (then the National Museum of American Art) acquisition.
1990 The House of Blues, multiple acquisitions.
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
2009 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, curated by Bonnie Grossman, 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: Self-Taught and Outsider Artists West of the Rockies
1994 African American Museum, Dallas, TX
1994 Skyline College, San Bruno, CA, Emerging Talent: African American Artists of California
1992 California State University, Hayward, CA, Vernacular Art
1992 2000 (annually) 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.
Country: United States
Books: Contemporary American Folk Art: A Collectors Guide.
Folk Art Master Work: Spiritual Leon Kennedy
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.
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.
Country: United States
Books: Contemporary American Folk Art: A Collectors Guide.
Permanent collections
1997 Smithsonian American Art Museum (then the National Museum of American Art) acquisition.
1990 The House of Blues, multiple acquisitions.
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
2009 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, curated by Bonnie Grossman, 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: Self-Taught and Outsider Artists West of the Rockies
1994 African American Museum, Dallas, TX
1994 Skyline College, San Bruno, CA, Emerging Talent: African American Artists of California
1992 California State University, Hayward, CA, Vernacular Art
1992 2000 (annually) Berkeley Civic Arts Commission, Berkeley, CA (Windows Project)
1991 Creative Growth Art Center, Oakland, CA, The Gospel Connection with Louis Estape
Visionary artist Leon Kennedy with recent artwork
Leon Kennedy describes some recent paintings on wood and works on paper.
African-American spiritual visionary Leon Kennedy (b. 1945, Houston, Texas) uses paint, pencil, marker, and mixed media on found objects to create 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 about $2,000,000. 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 Leon 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 painting now resides at the Smithsonian American Art Museum, while photos of Kennedy and other materials of Kennedy's are available for study at the archive at the National Archives in Washington, D.C.
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.
Country: United States
Books: Contemporary American Folk Art: A Collectors Guide.
Permanent collections
1997 Smithsonian American Art Museum (then the National Museum of American Art) acquisition.
1990 The House of Blues, multiple acquisitions.
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
(1967-1974) BlackMan's Art Gallery in San Francisco
Group Shows
2009 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
2004 Ames Gallery
2003 Black Box, Oakland, CA, Absolute Reflection
2000 San Francisco Arts Commission Extraordinary Artists, curated by Bonnie Grossman, 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: Self-Taught and Outsider Artists West of the Rockies
1994 African American Museum, Dallas, TX
1994 Skyline College, San Bruno, CA, Emerging Talent: African American Artists of California
1992 California State University, Hayward, CA, Vernacular Art
1992 2000 (annually) Berkeley Civic Arts Commission, Berkeley, CA (Windows Project)
1991 Creative Growth Art Center, Oakland, CA, The Gospel Connection with Louis Estape
William Latham
Top Ten Cities With Most Skyscrapers in the World 2018
Top Ten Cities With Most Skyscrapers in the World 2018
10 Singapore – 81
Singapore, an island city-state off southern Malaysia, is a global financial center with a tropical climate and multicultural population. Its colonial core centers on the Padang, a cricket field since the 1830s and now flanked by grand buildings such as City Hall, with its 18 Corinthian columns. In Singapore's circa-1820 Chinatown stands the red-and-gold Buddha Tooth Relic Temple, said to house one of Buddha's teeth.
9 Shenzhen, China – 83
Shenzhen, in southeastern China, is a modern metropolis that links Hong Kong to China’s mainland. It's known for its shopping destinations, including Luohu Commercial City, a massive mall with a vast array of wares, from tailors’ custom clothing to faux designer bags. The city also features contemporary buildings, such as the 600m-tall skyscraper Ping An International Finance Centre, and a number of amusement parks.
8 Guangzhou, China – 93
Guangzhou is a sprawling port city northwest of Hong Kong on the Pearl River. The city features avant-garde architecture such as Zaha Hadid’s Guangzhou Opera House (known as the “double pebble”); the carved box-shaped Guangdong Museum; and the iconic Canton TV Tower skyscraper, resembling a thin hourglass. The Chen Clan Ancestral Hall, a temple complex from 1894, also houses the Guangdong Folk Arts Museum.
7 Chongqing, China – 94
Chongqing is a sprawling municipality at the confluence of the Yangtze and Jialing rivers in southwestern China. In the city center, the large, domed Great Hall of the People complex stands above pedestrianized People's Square. On the other side of the square, the Three Gorges Museum features artifacts from the construction of the Three Gorges Dam as well as ancient art.
6 Tokyo, Japan – 114
Tokyo, Japan’s busy capital, mixes the ultramodern and the traditional, from neon-lit skyscrapers to historic temples. The opulent Meiji Shinto Shrine is known for its towering gate and surrounding woods. The Imperial Palace sits amid large public gardens. The city's many museums offer exhibits ranging from classical art (in the Tokyo National Museum) to a reconstructed kabuki theater (in the Edo-Tokyo Museum).
5 Chicago, United States – 117
Chicago, on Lake Michigan in Illinois, is among the largest cities in the U.S. Famed for its bold architecture, it has a skyline punctuated by skyscrapers such as the iconic John Hancock Center, 1,451-ft. Willis Tower (formerly the Sears Tower) and the neo-Gothic Tribune Tower. The city is also renowned for its museums, including the Art Institute of Chicago with its noted Impressionist and Post-Impressionist works.
4 Shanghai, China – 126
Shanghai, on China’s central coast, is the country's biggest city and a global financial hub. Its heart is the Bund, a famed waterfront promenade lined with colonial-era buildings. Across the Huangpu River rises the Pudong district’s futuristic skyline, including 632m Shanghai Tower and the Oriental Pearl TV Tower, with distinctive pink spheres. Sprawling Yu Garden has traditional pavilions, towers and ponds.
3 Dubai, United Arab Emirates – 148
Dubai is a city and emirate in the United Arab Emirates known for luxury shopping, ultramodern architecture and a lively nightlife scene. Burj Khalifa, an 830m-tall tower, dominates the skyscraper-filled skyline. At its foot lies Dubai Fountain, with jets and lights choreographed to music. On artificial islands just offshore is Atlantis, The Palm, a resort with water and marine-animal parks.
2 New York City, United States – 237
New York City comprises 5 boroughs sitting where the Hudson River meets the Atlantic Ocean. At its core is Manhattan, a densely populated borough that’s among the world’s major commercial, financial and cultural centers. Its iconic sites include skyscrapers such as the Empire State Building and sprawling Central Park. Broadway theater is staged in neon-lit Times Square.
1 Hong Kong, China – 303
Hong Kong is an autonomous territory, and former British colony, in southeastern China. Its vibrant, densely populated urban centre is a major port and global financial hub with a skyscraper-studded skyline. Central (the business district) features architectural landmarks like I.M. Pei’s Bank of China Tower. Hong Kong is also a major shopping destination, famed for bespoke tailors and Temple Street Night Market.
Leon Kennedy AMERICAN FOLK ART Master in 3D
American Folk Art master Leon Kennedy.
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.
Leon Kennedy AMERICAN FOLK ART Master in 3D
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.
Permanent collections
1997 Smithsonian American Art Museum (then the National Museum of American Art) acquisition.
1990 The House of Blues, multiple acquisitions.
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
2009 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, curated by Bonnie Grossman, 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: Self-Taught and Outsider Artists West of the Rockies
1994 African American Museum, Dallas, TX
1994 Skyline College, San Bruno, CA, Emerging Talent: African American Artists of California
1992 California State University, Hayward, CA, Vernacular Art
1992 2000 (annually) 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.
Country: United States
Books: Contemporary American Folk Art: A Collectors Guide.
3D Raw Visionary Spiritual Paintings. American Folk Art master Leon Kennedy.
3D Raw Visionary Spiritual Paintings. American Folk Art master Leon Kennedy.
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.
Permanent collections
1997 Smithsonian American Art Museum (then the National Museum of American Art) acquisition.
1990 The House of Blues, multiple acquisitions.
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
2009 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, curated by Bonnie Grossman, 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: Self-Taught and Outsider Artists West of the Rockies
1994 African American Museum, Dallas, TX
1994 Skyline College, San Bruno, CA, Emerging Talent: African American Artists of California
1992 California State University, Hayward, CA, Vernacular Art
1992 2000 (annually) 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.
Country: United States
Books: Contemporary American Folk Art: A Collectors Guide.
Spiritual Leon Kennedy. Black American Folk Art master.
Spiritual Leon Kennedy. Black American Folk Art master.
Outsider Visionary Art Brut:
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.
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.
Country: United States
Books: Contemporary American Folk Art: A Collectors Guide.
Permanent collections
1997 Smithsonian American Art Museum (then the National Museum of American Art) acquisition.
1990 The House of Blues, multiple acquisitions.
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
2009 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, curated by Bonnie Grossman, 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: Self-Taught and Outsider Artists West of the Rockies
1994 African American Museum, Dallas, TX
1994 Skyline College, San Bruno, CA, Emerging Talent: African American Artists of California
1992 California State University, Hayward, CA, Vernacular Art
1992 2000 (annually) Berkeley Civic Arts Commission, Berkeley, CA (Windows Project)
1991 Creative Growth Art Center, Oakland, CA, The Gospel Connection with Louis Estape
The Dream of America: Separation & Sacrifice in the Lives of North Country Latino Immigrants
Featuring photography and text by guest curator, Lisa Catalfamo-Flores, this exhibit takes us from the milking parlors of surrounding counties to the cinder-block homes of Coyula, Guadalajara, Mexico, and back again. This straightforward perspective asks that we consider without bias or stereotype, the work being done, and the lives and sacrifices of the workers. Hard work and separation are underlying themes of these immigrants’ lives.
Exhibit dates: February 27 to August 31, 2016
Produced by the Folklife Center at Crandall Public Library, and funded in part by the New York State Council on the Arts-Folk Arts Program with the support of Governor Andrew Cuomo and the NYS Legislature.
Delaware Folk Art at Blue Ball Barn - Wilmington, DE
Blue Ball Barn, the only State run folk art museum in the country features paintings, sculptures, quilts, carvings, salvage and outsider art as well as meet the artist gallery talks. Artist Eunice LaFate gave a presentation during my visit. Barn named after Blue Ball Tavern and built in 1914 by Alfred duPont was once part of the Nemours estate. It is an example of preservation and adaptive reuse of a historic structure and the centerpiece of Alapocas Run State Park.