JAMES PURDY AUTHOR DRAWING OUTSIDER ART "Red Bird" signed 1992 cat # 17

Description: RED BIRD BY JAMES PURDY AUTHOR/ OUTSIDER ARTIST He also made many drawings. His drawings were created in marker, pen, and pencil and crayon on paper. Controversial author James Purdy – rare drawing This drawing ( CAT #18)is SIGNED by JAMES PURDY date 1992 11 x 14 Due to age of the piece, there may be slight discoloration but nothing distracting from the overall beauty of the piece. Provenance: I acquired several sketchbooks and numerous drawing by James Purdy in 1992 directly from James Purdy when he visited Montgomery Alabama.This drawing was one of a number of drawings that were originally in a sketchbook , as you can see in photo. * THE SKETCHBOOK COVER IS NOT INCLUDED. James Purdy "James Purdy's literary career begun in the mid-fifties is oddly marked by success that somehow never altered his position as an outsider. His novels and stories have been translated into more than 30 languages, anthologized in text books, and have won him the Guggenheim Fellowship, an award from the National Institute of Arts on Letters and the Ford Foundation grant. Gore Vidal in Italy wrote that Purdy was an "authentic American genius." And Dame Edith Sitwell, who helped launch his career called him "the greatest writer produced in America during the past 100 years." NEW YORK TIMES REVIEW OF RECENTLY PUBLISHED WORKS 2013 :The Complete Short Stories of James Purdy He was an early evoker of a certain kind of gay experience in America. His stories are damp, cloistered, climate controlled, intentionally uncomfortable environments. His closeted gay men sense that something is wrong with them, rarely that anything is right. Purdy’s is a universe in which women are frequently grotesque. We read about one’s “immense meaty body” and another’s “receding chin and large pores. About yet another, we read, “There was a faint smell from her like that of an uncovered cistern.” His men, when they open their mouths, are given to utterances like: “I’m not a normal man, Peaches Maud.” The gay signifiers in Purdy’s stories take you back to another time. His men and boys lisp, or sew, or bake, or have womanly voices, or prize photographs of male relatives emerging from the water in swimming trunks. Their mothers and wives wonder what is wrong with them. Like his poetry his drawings illuminate a still deeper aspect of his talent. They are spirit drawings, intensely original, archetypal, like cave drawings coming out of the deep recesses of the psyche. Purdy spiraled his pencil in free flowing lines forming innocent looking minimal human figures. Purdy stated, "I don't know how to draw I just let the pencil go. Purdy usually doodled in between his literary projects, working with a ink pen and felt tip marker--compulsively filling one sketch book after another. What critics have said about James Purdy Style as fluid and natural as a man thinking to himself in the dark, yet controlled, coherent, with an innate sense of form, and great powers of concentration.--Katherine Anne Porter Cult author, poet and playwright James Purdy, whose fans ranged from Dorothy Parker to Gore Vidal and who was little known to the general public was born in Ohio. Purdy said he was "exposed to everything" as a child, when his parents split and he lived alternately with his mother, father and grandmother.Though best known for novels like Malcolm (1959) and The Nephew (1961), Purdy's credits include Cabot Wright Begins, Eustace Chisholm and the Works, as well as numerous short stories, plays, poems and drawings created over the past half-century. If you have any questions please feel free to contact me. Be sure to visit my ebay store to see other pieces of art and collectibles Visit My eBay Store: Deep South Vintage Antiques

Price: 600 USD

Location: New Orleans, Louisiana

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