Past: Dealer's Choice: Full House

Our fall exhibit, Dealer's Choice: Full House, features new acquisitions and personal favorites from our collections, like an early 20th-century Bee Keeper's Mask/Hood or a New York Post embroidered pillow by Andy Warhol's bestie Brigid Berlin.

Personal favorites include an important African American appliquéd textile, an incised carved and painted house portrait by the "Checkerboard Artist," an exceptional 19th-century African American doll, a substantial work by North Carolinian Outsider Artist Leroy Person, and a tout made from painted tires and carved wood.

Other works in the exhibit are an early work by Coenties Slip artist Jack Youngerman (1926-2020), an asylum period painting by Ralph Albert Blakelock (1847-1919), a mysterious midnight painting by early San Franciscan artist Eva Withrow (1858-1928), a beautiful Minnie Evans (1892-1987), a stunning Edwin Lawson (1911-1980), a masterwork by Henry Dousa (1820-1903?), two male nude wood constructions by Charles Jarm (1932-2021), an extremely early Philadelphia asylum watercolor, ("painted by a maniac") by Richard Nisbett (1753-1823), two egg hatching stone carvings by James W. Washington, Jr. (1909-2000), an early ceramic creature by Japanese nonverbal artist Shinichi Sawada (b.1982), ceramic vessels by The Mad Potter of Biloxi, George Ohr (1857-1918) and mind-blowing works by sand artist John A. Adams (1891-1967).

Additionally, for the first time at the gallery, an important and historically unique miniature portrait of Benjamin Franklin, done by Joseph-Aignan Sigaud de Lafond (1730-1810) created by an "electric spark," is on display.

And since one of our favorite artists is "anonymous," there are several stellar works by unknown artists.