Sybil Gibson folk art painting Outsider -Portrait #6 17x 20 blue yellow

Description: This Outsider painting is a PORTRAIT by Sybil Gibson Alabama FOLK ARTIST- It was created on paper with pastel wash of tempera.I purchased this painting from Sybil and her daughter circa 1992, but it was probably painted some years prior. 0 false 18 pt 18 pt 0 0 false false false DESCRIPTION #6SYBIL GIBSON #1331 LARGER FACE BLUE HAIR AND BLUE GREEN EYESSIZE 17 X 20 Sybil painted animals and flowers, but her portraits have an ethereal expression that really stands out. Her paintings with tempera paint on grocery bags were her medium instead of costly canvases. These grocery bags were the materials that were available to her. This portrait is of a full sized face with blue details. 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. 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: 800 USD

Location: New Orleans, Louisiana

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