Folk Art in Pittsburgh
Our traveling show Contemporary Folk Art: Treasures from the Smithsonian American Art Museum opens today at the Senator John Heinz Pittsburgh Regional History Center in Pennsylvania.
Contemporary Folk Art features seventy paintings and sculptures made by self-taught artists. Forging individualistic paths rather than following established conventions, these painters and sculptors convey exceptional ingenuity, insight, wit, and reverence. Baptism of Jesus is one of the delights on view in Pittsburgh through January 30, 2003.
Lorenzo Scott is a Southern Baptist housepainter who creates paintings and evangelistic church fliers based on Old Master canvases he has studied in reproduction and in museums from New York to his home in Atlanta. He often chooses episodes from the lives of Christ and Mary and frequently shows biblical figures as African Americans to reinforce the personal relationship with God that he advocates.
Source: Lynda Hartigan. Contemporary Folk Art: Treasures from the Smithsonian American Art Museum (exhibition text, Smithsonian American Art Museum, 1999).
Pictured: Lorenzo Scott, born 1934, Baptism of Jesus, 1987, oil, 48 1/8 x 48 1/8 in., Smithsonian American Art Museum, Gift of Jane and Bert Hunecke.
Our traveling show Contemporary Folk Art: Treasures from the Smithsonian American Art Museum opens today at the Senator John Heinz Pittsburgh Regional History Center in Pennsylvania.
Contemporary Folk Art features seventy paintings and sculptures made by self-taught artists. Forging individualistic paths rather than following established conventions, these painters and sculptors convey exceptional ingenuity, insight, wit, and reverence. Baptism of Jesus is one of the delights on view in Pittsburgh through January 30, 2003.