Photographs and video of self-taught artists
name: label: Creator
content: Kirwin, Liza
label: Names
content: Archives of American Art
label: Names
content: Hemphill Folk Art Collection
label: Names
content: National Museum of American Art (U.S.)
topic: label: Occupation
content: Arts administrators -- Washington (D.C.)
label: Occupation
content: Self-taught artists
acqinfo: label: Provenance
content: Donated 2015 by Liza Kirwin.
creator: label: Creator
content: Kirwin, Liza
bioghist: label: Biographical / Historical
content: Liza Kirwin is a curator, arts administrator and author, and Deputy Director and former Southeast Regional Collector, Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution.
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 0.6 Linear Feet
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1985-1989
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives of American Art
identifier: label: Identifier
content: AAA.kirwliza
objectType: label: Type
content: Collection descriptions
label: Type
content: Archival materials
label: Type
content: Video recordings
genre_format: label: Genre/Form
content: Video recordings
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: Photographs, slides, and video of self-taught artists taken by Liza Kirwin, Southeast Regional Collector, Archives of American Art, when traveling for the Archives.
label: Scope and Contents
content: Subjects include Howard Finster, Vollis Simpson, Clyde Jones, Dilmus Hall, Mary Smith, David Butler, Royal Robertson, Horacio Valdez, Eddie Owens Martin, Burgess Dulaney, Joseph Fury, Sam Doyle, James "Money Man" McClain, and William C. Rice. Many photographs include images of works of art. Two video recordings taken by Kirwin are of Horacio Valdez at his home in Dixon, New Mexico, in conversation with Andrew L. Connors, Associate Curator, National Museum of American Art (NMAA), and Tonia L. Horton, October 20, 1987, on a research trip in preparation for the exhibition, "Made with Passion: The Hemphill Folk Art Collection in the National Museum of American Art," 1990.
label: Scope and Contents
content: Also found are contact sheets and slides of Finster taken by Smithsonian photographer Richard Strauss on the occasion of filming of "The Living Smithsonian" for Smithsonian World (public television) at Finster's Paradise Garden in Pennville, Georgia, January 1988.