DAVID BUTLER (1898-1997)

Lot 104
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ID 700124
Lot 104 | DAVID BUTLER (1898-1997)
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DAVID BUTLER (1898-1997)

Animal, circa 1975

paint and plastic on cut metal

9 3⁄4 x 12 3⁄4 in.







Provenance

Acquired directly from the artist, circa 1975





Literature

Jane Livingston and John Beardsley, Black Folk Art in America 1930-1980 (Mississippi, 1982), cat. no. 41.





Exhibited

New Orleans Museum of Art, David Butler, 13 February- 21 March; New Orleans, Morgan City Municipal Auditorium, 11 April- 9 May 1976.

Washington D.C., Corcoran Gallery of Art, Black Folk Art in America 1930-1980, 15 Jan- 28 March; Louisville, Kentucky, J.B. Speed Museum, 26 April- 13 June; Brooklyn Museum of Art, 4 July- 12 September 1982; California, Los Angeles, Craft and Folk Art Museum, 30 November- 3 February 1983; Houston, Rice University, 4 March- 15 May 1983; Detroit Institute for the Arts, 10 July- 2 October; Birmingham, Alabama, Birmingham Museum of Art, 6 November- 26 December; Chicago, Illinois, Field Museum of Natural History, 26 December- 15 July 1984.

Contemporary Arts Center New Orleans, What a Wonderful World, 4 October- 14 December 2003.

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