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.&nbsp;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_