National Gallery of Art

between 4th Street and 9th Street
Washington , DC
United States

NOW ON VIEW

Called to Create: Black Artists of the American South

From: 
Sunday, September 18, 2022
Until: 
Sunday, December 31, 2023

PAST EVENTS

Outliers and American Vanguard Art

From: 
Sunday, January 28, 2018
Until: 
Sunday, May 13, 2018

Self-taught artists—variously termed folk, primitive, visionary, naïve, and outsider—have played a significant role in the history of modernism, yet their contributions have been largely disregarded or forgotten. Again and again in the United States during the past century, vanguard artists found affinities and inspiration in the work of their untutored, marginalized peers and became staunch advocates, embracing them as fellow artists. Though this encouraged museums to bring their work to broad public view, institutions that complied usually did so without contesting the divide between those at the center (including the vanguard) and those on its periphery (including the autodidact).