Description: This Outsider painting is LARGE ABSTRACT by Sybil Gibson Alabama FOLK ARTIST- This painting was created on paper with pastel wash of tempera on grocery bag Circa 1987, 0 false 18 pt 18 pt 0 0 false false false A face with Blue eyes at the top amd several other blue eyed faces at bottom- This drawing was carefully rolled in a tube to store for many years and it will be shipped in a protected tube.It will need to be flattened out under a heavy matt for a few days before it is framed. I purchased this painting along with others in my collection in 1992 directly from Sybil and her daughter. They had been packed away in boxes for a number of years by Sybil. In 1971 the Miami Museum of Modern Art gave Sybil a one-woman show,although she had disappeared and did not attend.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. Sybil Gibson died January 2, 1995 at the age of eighty-six. 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. 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: 1500 USD
Location: Montgomery, Alabama
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Restocking Fee: No
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All returns accepted: Returns Accepted
Item must be returned within: 30 Days
Refund will be given as: Money Back
Original/Reproduction: Original
Listed By: Dealer or Reseller
Signed?: Signed
Type: Paintings
Material: Paper & Papier Mache
Style: Folk Art
Region of Origin: US-Southeast
Original/ Reproduction: Original
Size Type/ Largest Dimension: large 19 x 36
