John Bunion Murray

John Bunion (J.B.) Murray (bɛ lahi sabiri li la Murry; 1908–1988)  daa nyɛla nuchee ni baŋda ka o tuma nyɛ din jɛndi pɛntibu ka yina Glascock County, GA.

 Exhibitions and permanent collections 
Murray's tumanima nyɛ din doli na ŋɔ:

 Baking in the Sun: Visionary Images from the South, 13 Jun.- 31 Jul 1987, University Art Museum, Lafayette, LA.
 Outside the Mainstream; Folk Art in Our Time. May–August 1988, High Museum of Art at Georgia Pacific Center, Atlanta, GA.
 Afro-American Folk Artists. 30 Jul.- 7 Aug. 1988, Berman Gallery, Atlanta, GA.
 Gifted Visions:Black American Folk Art, 1988, Atrium Gallery, University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT.
 American Resources: Selected Works of American American Artists. 26 Aug- 24 Sep, 1989, Bernice Steinbaum Gallery, New York, NY.
 Another Face of the Diamond: Pathways Through the Black Atlantic South. 1989, New Visions Gallery, New York, NY.
 Black History, Black Vision: The Visionary Image in Texas. 27 Jan.- 19 Mar. 1989, Archer m. Huntington Gallery, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX.
 A Density of Passions, Aug 1989, New Jersey State Museum, Trenton, NJ.
 Gifted Visions: African American Folk Art.  27 Jan- 24 Feb. 1990, University Art Gallery, University of Massachusetts, Dartmouth, MA.
 J.B. Murry, 15 Dec. 1990- 12 Jan, 1991, Phyllis Kind Gallery, New York.
 Parallel Visions: Modern Artists and Outsider Art. 18 Oct. 1992- 3 Jan. 1993, Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA), Los Angeles, CA.
 Pictured in My Mind: Contemporary American Self-Taught Art from the collection of Dr. Kurt Gitter and Alice Rae Yelen. 1995, Birmingham Museum of Art, Birmingham, AL.
 Wrestling with History: A Celebration of African American Self-Taught Artists from the collection of Ronald and June Shelp, 1996, Baruch College, CUNY, New York, NY.
 Masterworks by Twentieth Century African-American Artists. 17 Jan- 1 Mar, 1998, Springfield Museum of Art, Springfield, OH.
 Southern Spirit: The Hill Collection. 21 Feb - 31 Mar 2000, Museum of Art, Tallahassee, FL.
 Testimony: Vernacular Art of the African American South: the Ronald and June Shelp Collection. 2001, Kalamazoo Institute of Arts, Kalamazoo, MI.
 Define Drawing: Work by Self-Taught Artists Past and Present. 14 Jul- 15 Sep 2001, Barbara Archer Gallery, Atlanta, GA.
 Stories of Community: Self-Taught Art from the Hill Collection. 12 Aug- 30 Oct, 2004. Museum of Arts and Sciences, Macon, GA.
 Coming Home: Self-Taught Artists, the Bible, and the American South. 19 Jun - 13 Nov. 2004, Art Museum of the University of Memphis, Memphis, TN.
 The Souls of Black Folk: Selections of African American Folk Art from the Museum's Permanent Collection. 28 Nov. 2004- ongoing, Museum of African American Life and Culture, Dallas, TX.
 Holy H2O: Fluid Universe. 2 Oct. 2004- 4 Sep. 2005, American Visionary Art Museum, Baltimore, MD.
 Visual Glossolalia. 15 Jun - 15 Jul, 2005, Luise Ross Gallery, New York, NY.
 Parallel Visions II. 5 Apr.- 26 May 2006, Galerie St. Etienne, New York, NY.
 Recent Acquisitions. 6 Jun.- 8 Sep., 2006, Galerie St. Etienne, New York, NY.
 Amazing Grace: Self-Taught Artists from the Mullis Collection, 29, Sep. 2007- 6 Jan. 2008, Georgia Museum of Art, University of Georgia, Athens, GA.
 Crossroads: Spirituality in American Folk Traditions. 17 Nov, 2007- 24 Feb, 2008. Owensboro Museum of Fine Art, Owensboro, KY.
 Approaching Abstraction. 6 Oct, 2009- 6 Sep, 2010, Museum of American Folk Art, New York, NY.
 All Folk, 19 Aug.- 2 Oct. 2010, Barbara Archer Gallery, Atlanta, GA.
 Naives, Seers, one Wolves, and World Savers XXIV, 2 Apr. 2011, Dean Jensen Gallery, Milwaukee, WI.
 Outsider Visions: Self-Taught Southern Artists of the Twentieth Century. 21 Sep, 2011- 8 Jan, 2012, Boca Raton Museum of Art, Boca Raton, FL.
 Pure Folk: Celebrating the Folk Art Society of America. 14 Sep.- 10 Nov. 2012, Barbara Archer Gallery, Atlanta, GA.
 Voodoo Child: J.B. Murray and Mary Smith. 2013, abcd, le galerie, Paris, FR.
 When the Stars Begin to Fall: Imagination in the American South. 27 Mar- 29 Jun, 2014, Studio Museum in Harlem, New York, NY.

 permanent collections: 
 Metropolitan Museum of Art
 Minneapolis Institute of Art
 Ackland Art Museum
 Smithsonian American Art Museum 
 American Folk Art Museum

Kundivihira 

Relevant literature
 Judith McWillie and Grey Gundaker. No Space Hidden: The Spirit of African American Yardwork (Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 2005) pp. 39, 40, 168–171.
 Clifton-James, Licia E. 2016. Making the connection: JB Murray and the scripts and forms of Africa. University of Missouri-Kansas City: doctoral dissertation.

External links
 http://www.folkartmuseum.org/?t=images&id=4381
 http://americanart.si.edu/collections/search/artwork/?id=86323
 http://www.cargofolkart.com/Artist%20Pages/J.B.%20Murry.htm 
 http://www.folkstreams.net/film,219 
 http://galleristny.com/2014/03/terms-of-art-looking-at-the-american-south-studio-museum-considers-the-insider-outsider-divide/
 https://issuu.com/cavinmorris/docs/two_transcend-jbm_catalog_safarova_

Pubu:Lahabaya zaa
Category:1908 births
Category:1988 deaths
Category:20th-century American painters
Category:American abstract artists
Category:American folk artists
Category:American outsider artists
Category:Painters from Georgia (U.S. state)
Category:People from Glascock County, Georgia
Category:Visionary artists