movement death_date death_place birth_place training nationality patrons name field birth_date article_title birth_name bgcolour
outsider art 25 december 1972 rock island , rock island county , illinois missouri , united states self-taught african-american-cherokee john hopgood , whitney halstead , ray yoshida joseph yoakum illustration , drawing 22 february 1889 joseph yoakum
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joseph yoakum

joseph elmer yoakum -lrb- february 22 , 1889 -- december 25 , 1972 -rrb- was a self-taught landscape artist of african-american and native american descent , who drew landscapes in a highly individual style .
he was 76 when he started to record his memories in the form of imaginary landscapes , and he produced over 2,000 drawings during the last decade of his life .
his work is an example of what is sometimes called outsider art -lrb- formerly , drawings and paintings of the insane -rrb- .
