Description: Folk Art Outsider Vintage PORTRAIT by Sybil Gibson Alabama It was created on paper with pastel wash of tempera #7 YELLOW FACE BY SYBIL GIBSON - Size: 18 3/4 x 14 1/2 Date: circa 1975 Provenance: Purchased from Sybil Gibson circa 1992 from a large collection of her early drawings. The drawing many years ago was consigned to Richard Gasperi's Julia Street Gallery in New Orleans, where it was displayed along side a world-class folk art collection .Sybil Gibson painted animals and flowers with an ethereal expression. Her paintings with tempera paint on grocery bags were her medium instead of costly canvases. These grocery bags were the main materials that were available to her. In 1971 the Miami Museum of Modern Art gave Sybil a one-woman show.Sybil Gibson died January 2, 1995 at the age of eighty-six. Her work is included in the permanent collections of the Birmingham Museum of Art, Alabama; the Montgomery Museum of Fine Arts, Alabama; the Museum of American Folk Art, New York and the New Orleans Museum of Art in Louisiana. See more of her art at The Anton Haardt Gallery in New Orleans. "Sybil Gibson was born Sybil Aaron in Dora, Alabama. Although Gibson's father was a prosperous Alabama coal mine operator, she spent most of her life in poverty. Shortly before the opening of her first art exhibition at the Miami Museum of Modern Art in May, 1971, Gibson disappeared, leaving drawings scattered about her yard."At the age of 50 and with no previous training nor interest in art, Sybil Gibson was seized... suddenly and completely" by an urge to paint. At hand were sixteen grocery bags and powdered tempera with which he experimented. These materials remained her medium through 35 years of compulsive painting that obliterated her former life. The simple subject matter of flora and fauna are submerged in mystery. Line gives way to light where lyrical hues bleed as in the dome of a rural Alabama sky. Yet form emerges shy of abstraction, retaining the familiarity of distant memory. Evasive flowers become something immediate and urgent. The spirit-like portraits which populate Gibson's work peer as if from behind a veil. " Granger Carr Sybil Gibson's ethereal paintings of people and flowers place her work as one of Alabama's cherished self-taught artists. BE SURE TO VISIT MY STORE FOR MORE FOLK ART!
Price: 650 USD
Location: New Orleans, Louisiana
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Restocking Fee: No
Return shipping will be paid by: Seller
All returns accepted: Returns Accepted
Item must be returned within: 30 Days
Refund will be given as: Money Back
Region of Origin: US-Southeast
Artist: Sybil Gibson
Style: Folk Art
Listed By: Dealer or Reseller
Material: Paper & Papier Mache
Unit of Sale: Single-Piece Work
Date of Creation: 1970-1989
Type: Paintings
Original/Reproduction: Original
Year of Production: 1975
Features: Signed
Signed?: Signed
Original/ Reproduction: Original
Color: Yellow
Subject: Portrait
Size Type/ Largest Dimension: Medium (Up to 30")
Original/Licensed Reproduction: Original
