Lorenzo Scott

**Lorenzo Scott** (bɛ daa dɔɣi o la yuuni 1934, tiŋa yuli booni West Point, Georgia) ka o nyɛ America nuuni tuunbaŋda ŋun yuli du 1980s bahigu na.

## O piligu

Lorenzo Scott nyɛla bɛ ni daa dɔɣi so Anashaara goli July 23, 1934, West Point, Georgia.  O ma ni daa kɔŋ o tuma o daŋ daa yiya labi Atlanta ni bɛ ti bo tuma.

## Exhibitions

**Museum Exhibitions**

Lorenzo Scott's tumanima shɛŋa n-nyɛ:

* 1986 Atlanta College of Art Gallery, Atlanta, GA
* 1989 La Grange Museum of Art (the date needs verification)
* 1991 Quinlin Art Center and Gainesville College, Gainesville, GA
* 1993 Springfield Museum of Art, Springfield, IL
* 1993 Sidney Miskin Gallery – Baruch College, New York, NY
* 1995 Nexus Contemporary Art Center, Atlanta, GA
* 1996 Rockford Art Museum, Rockford IL
* 1996 Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture New York, NY
* 1997 Chicago Cultural Center and Intuit, The Center for Intuitive and Outsider Art
* 1997 Milwaukee Art Museum, Milwaukee, WI
* 1999-2000 American Visionary Museum, Baltimore, MD
* 1999 Center for Contemporary Art, St. Louis, MO
* 1999 High Museum of Art, Atlanta, GA
* 2000 Smithsonian American Art Museum (Traveling Exhibition, 2000 - 2003)
* 2000 Mary Brogan Museum of Art and Science, Tallahassee FL
* 2000 Tampa Museum of Art, Tampa FL
* 2000 Kalamazoo Institute of Arts, Kalamazoo, MI (Traveling Exhibition, 2000 -2004)
* 2000 Coastal Discovery Museum, Hilton Head Island, SC
* 2001 High Museum of Art, Atlanta, GA
* 2001 The Art Museum at Florida International University, Miami, FL
* 2001 Tacoma Art Museum, Tacoma WA
* 2001 Yellowstone Art Museum, Billings MT
* 2001 Cummer Museum of Art, Jacksonville, FL
* 2001 Marsh Art Gallery, University of Richmond Museums, Richmond, VA (Traveling Exhibition, 2001 - 2002)
* 2002 Spruill Gallery (public exhibition space)
* 2002 High Museum of Art, Atlanta, GA
* 2002 Fort Wayne Museum of Art, Fort Wayne, IN
* 2002 Longwood Center for the Visual Arts, Longwood College, Farmville, VA
* 2002 Terrace Gallery, City of Orlando, Orlando, FL
* 2002 Art Museum of Western Virginia, Roanoke, VA
* 2002 Columbia Museum and Gibbs Planetarium, Columbia, SC
* 2002 Tubman African-American Museum, Macon, GA
* 2002 Savannah College of Art and Design, Savannah, GA
* 2002 Beach Institute, Savannah, GA
* 2002 The Arkansas Arts Center, Little Rock, AR (Traveling Exhibition 2002–2005)
* 2002-3 American Folk Art Museum, New York, NY
* 2002-3 Peninsula Fine Arts Center, Newport News, VA
* 2002-3 Senator John Heinz Pittsburgh Regional History Center, Pittsburgh, PA
* 2003 Kennesaw State University Fine Arts Gallery
* 2003 Morris Museum of Art, Augusta, GA
* 2003 Stedman Art Gallery, Camden NJ
* 2003 Southern Ohio Museum, Portsmouth, OH
* 2003 Memphis Art Museum (Traveling Exhibition 2003–2006)
* 2003 Marjorie Barrick Museum (University of Nevada, Las Vegas)
* 2003 Telfair Museum of Art, Savannah, GA
* 2003 Kennesaw State University, Fine Arts Gallery
* 2004 Morris Museum of Art, Augusta, GA
* 2004 Paris Gibson Square Museum of Art, Great Falls, MT
* 2004 Terrace Gallery, City of Orlando, FL
* 2004 Defoor Centre, Atlanta, GA. The Defoor Centre is known as "The West Venue" since July, 2021
* 2005 Loveland Museum and Gallery, Loveland, CO
* 2007 Morris Museum of Art, Augusta, GA
* 2007-8 Georgia Museum of Art, Athens, GA
* 2009 High Museum of Art, Atlanta, GA
* 2011 Boca Raton Art Museum (Collection of Ann and Ted Oliver)
* 2011 Myrtle Beach Art Museum (Collection of Ann and Ted Oliver)
* 2011 Hickory NC Art Museum (2 paintings donated by Ann and Ted Oliver)
* 2012 Heaven+Hell exhibition, February 10 – June 30, Intuit, Chicago, IL (The art from the "Hell half" of the exhibition)
* 2012 Heaven+Hell exhibition, February 10 – June 30, Loyola University Museum of Art, Chicago, IL (The art from the "Heaven half" of the exhibition)
* 2013-4 Madison-Morgan Cultural Center, Madison, GA
* 2015-16 Columbia Museum of Art, Columbia, SC

**Museum Permanent Collections**

* American Folk Art Museum, New York City (Gift of Jane and Bert Hunecke) (Promised gift of Harvie B. and Charles l. Abney, P9.2000.1)
* Asheville Art Museum, Asheville NC (Gift of Ted Oliver)
* Columbus Museum of Art, Columbus, GA (Gift of Carl Mullis)
* Georgia Museum of Art, Athens, GA (Gift of Carl Mullis)
* Hickory Museum NC (Gift of Ted Oliver)
* High Museum of Art, Atlanta GA (1 gift of Jim Farmer, 1 gift of Randy Siegel)
* Morris Museum of Art, Augusta GA (3 works, 2 were gifts of Jim Farmer)
* Rockford Art Museum, Rockford, IL (Sellen, 2000, p.&nbsp;66-67)
* Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington DC (2 works, gifts of Bert and Jane Hunecke)
* St. James Place Folk Art Museum, Robertsville, NC (Sellen, 2000, p.&nbsp;76-77)
* Tubman African-American Museum (Gift of Jim Farmer)

**Gallery Exhibitions and Other Showings**

Lorenzo Scott's work has also been shown in many commercial galleries, collections, internet sites and exhibitions including:

* America Oh Yes!, Hilton Head, South Carolina
* America Oh Yes!, Washington, D.C.
* Ask Art (internet site)
* AXA Gallery, New York, NY
* Barbara Archer Gallery, Atlanta, Georgia
* Erica Kay Gallery, Tucker Georgia
* Folk Art Messenger
* Folk Fest, Atlanta, Georgia
* Galerie Bonheur, St. Louis, Missouri
* Ginger Young Gallery, Chapel Hill, North Carolina
* Grey Carter Objects of Art, Alexandria, Virginia
*  High Museum of Art, Art Partners Group (2014 Retrospective exhibition held by the Lorenzo Scott Foundation, Stone Mountain, GA)
* Janine Taylor Folk Art Gallery, Winter Park, Florida
* Knoke Fine Arts, Marietta, Georgia
* Leslie Muth Gallery, Santa Fe, New Mexico
* Lorenzo Scott Fine Art Gallery, Atlanta, Georgia
* Lorenzo Scott Gallery, Ponce de Leon Avenue, Atlanta, Georgia
* Mason Murer Gallery, Atlanta, Georgia
* Modern Primitive Gallery, Atlanta, Georgia
* Marcia Weber Art Objects, Montgomery, Alabama
* Oliver's Southern Folk Art, Hendersonville, North Carolina
* Orange Hill Gallery, Atlanta, Georgia
* Primitive Eye Gallery, Scottsdale, Georgia
* Shade Gallery, Atlanta, Georgia
* Slotin Folk Art Auction, Buford, Georgia
* The Lorenzo Scott Project, Stone Mountain, Georgia
* Woodward Gallery, New York, N.Y.
* Who Fest, Atlanta, Georgia

## Further reading

### Books, articles, and catalogs

**Arnett, P. and W. Arnett** (executive eds.). 2000. *Souls Grown Deep: African American Vernacular Art of the South*. Volume One: *The Tree Gave the Dove a Leaf.* Lorenzo Scott. p.&nbsp;358-359. Tinwood Books, Atlanta, GA.

**Browne, L**. 2000. *A Conversation with Lorenzo Scott*. Folk Art Messenger. **13:**8-9.

**Hunecke, B. and M. Chepp**. 1993. *An Unexpected Orthodoxy: The Paintings of Lorenzo Scott.* Springfield Museum of Art. Springfield, IL. (Out of Print)

**Hollander, Stacey C. and Brooke Davis Anderson**. 2001. *American Anthem – Masterworks from the American Folk Art Museum*. Lorenzo Scott: *The Dining Room Lady* (color) p.&nbsp;280; description, p.&nbsp;401. American Folk Art Museum in association with Harry N. Abrams, Inc., Publishers. New York.

**Klacsmann, Karen Towers**. 2007, four page exhibition brochure in color for "Beyond This World – Painting of Lorenzo Scott", July 14-September 9, 2007, Morris Museum of Art, Augusta, GA.

**Kogan, L. and B. Cate**. 1994. *Treasures of American Folk Art*, Lorenzo Scott. p.&nbsp;107. Museum of American Folk Art. Abbeville Press, New York, NY.

**Manoguerra, Paul** (organizer).  2007.  *Amazing Grace -- Self-Taught Artists from the Mullis Collection.*  Georgia Museum of Art, University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia, (Exhibition at the Georgia Museum of Art, September 29, 2007 - January 6, 2008, 159 pages with 90 plates in color)

Two Lorenzo Scott paintings are illustrated in color, each on full pages: D*ay in the Park* 1996 (Page 118, Plate 69) and *Baptism of Jesus* 1996 (Page 119, Plate 70).

**Moses, K.** 1999. *Outsider Art of the South*. *Lorenzo Scott*. p.&nbsp;178-182. Schiffer Publishing Ltd. Atglen, PA.

**Patterson, Tom.** 2001. *Contemporary Folk Art – Treasures from the Smithsonian American Art Museum*. Watson-Guptill Publications, New York. Smithsonian American Art Museum. Lorenzo Scott: *Baptism of Jesus*, p.&nbsp;86-87.

**Rosenak, Chuck and Jan Rosenak**. 1996. *Contemporary American Folk Art – A Collector's Guide.* Lorenzo Scott. p.&nbsp;168-169 (also see the color illustration of *Jim, Tammy and Jesus* on page 143)

**Schomberger Center for Research in Black Culture and Exhibitions International**. 2001. *Testimony: Vernacular Art of the African-American South: The Ronald and June Shep Collection. Lorenzo Scott*. p.&nbsp;136-137. Harry N. Abrams, Inc. New York, NY.

**Sellen, B.-C. and C. J. Johnson**. 1993. 2*0th Century American Folk, Self Taught, and Outsider Art*. *Lorenzo Scott*. p.&nbsp;259, 412–413. Neal-Schuman Publishers, Inc., New York, NY.

**Tarbell, Molly and Jan Petry** (curators).  Heaven + Hell, exhibition catalog, February 10 – June 30, Intuit, Chicago, IL (The art from the "Hell half" of the exhibition) and Loyola University Museum of Art (LUMA), Chicago, IL (The art from the "Heaven half" of the exhibition), 32 pages.  It includes color photographs of two Lorenzo Scott paintings.  The postcard announcing the exhibition featured a color photograph of a third Lorenzo Scott painting "God Expelling the Devil from Heaven".

Two Lorenzo Scott paintings are illustrated in color in the catalog, and a third painting was features in color on the postcard sent to announce the exhibitions.

**University of Richmond Museums**. 2001. *Point of View: American Folk Art from the William and Ann Oppenheimer Collection. Lorenzo Scott*. p.&nbsp;57, 64. University of Richmond Museums, Richmond, VA.

## Kundivihira

## External links
* Lorenzo Scott Fine Art Gallery, Atlanta, GA, representing the work of Lorenzo Scott
* Beyond This World, Paintings by Lorenzo Scott, essay by Karen Klacsmann in The Morris Art Museum Exhibition Guide
* Lorenzo Scott Biography page, Smithsonian American Art Museum entry
* The Lorenzo Scott Project, project to document and promote the visual work of Lorenzo Scott; Director, Jim Farmer
* Born to Witness, documentary of Lorenzo Scott
* Kennesaw State University video, *Lorenzo Scott*, 2003. http://web.kennesaw.edu/news/stories/kennesaw-state-will-present-exhibition-black-folk-art
* *The Miracle Stories of Lorenzo Scott*, 2008. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jIhwv0w09mI
* *Born to Witness: Lorenzo Scott*, 2013. http://lorenzo-scott-project.org/Lorenzo/Documentary.html
* *Lorenzo Scott – By and By*, 2013. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GGZXwNhHtRs
* The West Venue, Atlanta, GA, Event Venue previously known as The Defoor Centre
* 6 things to look for in an event space, Blog Page from The West Venue
* Event Spaces Atlanta, Blog Page from The West Venue
* Wedding Venue Atlanta, Blog Page from The West Venue
* The West Venue Event Space, The West Venue Main Page