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Flying free : Twentieth-Century self-taught art from the collection of Ellin and Baron Gordon

by Ellin Gordon, Barbara R. Luck, Tom Patterson, Laura E. Pass

An exploration of twentieth-century American self-taught and folk art from a prominent private collection. This work features full-colour reproductions, biographical sketches of seventy-eight artists, and essays analysing the environments that shaped their art.

Accession 12286 ISBN 157806029X Publisher Colonial Williamsburg, University Press of Mississippi
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