April 17, 2024
JAMES PURDY DRAWING outsider art signed 1992 "Figures #5" gestural
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" ABSTRACT FIGURE "(Cat# 05) BY JAMES PURDY WELL KNOWN AUTHOR/ OUTSIDER ARTIST He also made many drawings. His drawings were created in marker, pen, and pencil and crayon on paper. This drawing is SIGNED by JAMES PURDY date circa 1990 11 x 14 Controversial author James Purdy – rare drawing James Purdy's literary career, begun in the mid-fifties, is oddly marked by success that somehow never altered his position as an outsider. His novels and stories have been translated into more than 30 languages, anthologized in text books, and have won him the Guggenheim Fellowship, an award from the National Institute of Arts on Letters and the Ford Foundation grant. Gore Vidal in Italy wrote that Purdy was an "authentic American genius." And Dame Edith Sitwell, who helped launch his career called him "the greatest writer produced in America during the past 100 years." Like his poetry his drawings illuminate a still deeper aspect of his talent. They are spirit drawings, intensely original, archetypal, like cave drawings coming out of the deep recesses of the psyche. Purdy stated "I don't know how to draw I just let the pencil go." Purdy usually doodled in between his literary projects, working with a ink pen and felt tip marker--compulsively filling one sketch book after another. What critics have said about James Purdy "Style as fluid
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