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Collection of Mid Century Outsider Drawings 1930’s

Beautiful Outsider, Self-Taught, Brut, Naive Style Drawings made in the 1930-40’s. These measure approximately 3 x 4 inches (sizes vary). Drawings were meant to be mailed as hand made greeting cards (Valentine’s day, Christmas, New Years, etc).  Acquired in the 1990’s in New York, USA.

Asking $150 each.

Research on who made the drawings:

Irving Drutman (1910-1978)

Irving Drutman (1910-1978), American journalist, editor, songwriter, and collector. Born Isidore Druitman to Max Druitman, an upholsterer, and Esther Druitman on July 28, 1910. Drutman wrote articles for the New York Herald Tribune and New York Times. In addition to theatrical journalism, Drutman’s involvement in theatre and film also included working as a freelance publicist and songwriting, with songs including “Twilight Song,” “Mama Never Told Me,” and “Bel Ami.” Drutman edited Janet Flanner’s memoirs Paris Was Yesterday (1972) and London Was Yesterday (1975), and collected writings Janet Flanner’s World (1979). Drutman published his memoir Good Company in 1976. He died of cancer on September 20, 1978 in New York City.
 

What is Outsider Art:

Outsider Art is art by self-taught or naïve art makers. Typically, those labeled as outsider artists have little or no contact with the mainstream art world or art institutions. In many cases, their work is discovered only after their deaths. Often, outsider art illustrates extreme mental states, unconventional ideas, or elaborate fantasy worlds.

The term outsider art was coined by art critic Roger Cardinal in 1972 as an English synonym for art brut (French: [aʁ bʁyt], “raw art” or “rough art”), a label created by French artistJean Dubuffet to describe art created outside the boundaries of official culture; Dubuffet focused particularly on art by those on the outside of the established art scene, using as examples psychiatric hospital patients and children.

Outsider art has emerged as a successful art marketing category; an annual Outsider Art Fair has taken place in New York since 1993, and there are at least two regularly published journals dedicated to the subject. The term is sometimes misapplied as a catch-all marketing label for art created by people who are outside the mainstream “art world” or “art gallery system”, regardless of their circumstances or the content of their work. A more specific term, “outsider music“, was later adapted for musicians.

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