J.B. MURRAY (1908-1988)

Lot 66
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ID 700090
Lot 66 | J.B. MURRAY (1908-1988)
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J.B. MURRAY (1908-1988)

Untitled (multicolored), circa 1986

tempera and ink on poster board

23 1⁄2 x 18 in.







Provenance

Dr. William Rawlings, Jr., Sandersville, Georgia

Acquired from the above, 1988





Literature

Alice Rae Yelen, Passionate Visions of the American South: Self-Taught Artists from 1940 to the Present (Mississippi, 1993), p.141, ill. p.194.

William Fagaly, The Night Crawler King: Memoirs of an Art Museum Curator (University Press of Mississippi, 2021), cover.





Exhibited

New Orleans Museum of Art, Passionate Visions of the American South: Self-Taught Artists from 1940 to the Present, 1993- 1995.

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