Joseph E. Yoakum : what I saw / edited by Mark Pascale, Esther Adler, and Édouard Kopp ; with contributions by Esther Adler, Kathleen Ash-Milby, Mary Broadway, Clara Granzotto, Whitney Halstead, Édouard Kopp, Faheem Majeed, Laura K. Minton, Emily Olek, Mark Pascale, and Ken Sutherland.

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"Much of Joseph Elmer Yoakum's story comes from the artist himself--and is almost too fantastic to believe. At a young age, Yoakum (1891-1972) traveled the globe with numerous circuses; he later served in a segregated noncombat regiment during World War I before settling in Chicago. There, inspired...

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Bibliographic Details
Uniform Title:Works. Selections
Corporate Authors: Art Institute of Chicago (Host institution, Publisher)
Museum of Modern Art (New York, N.Y.) (Host institution)
Menil Collection (Houston, Tex.) (Host institution)
Other Authors: Yoakum, Joseph, 1886-1972 (Artist)
Pascale, Mark, 1954- (Editor)
Adler, Esther (Curator) (Editor, Contributor)
Kopp, Édouard, 1974- (Editor, Contributor)
Ash-Milby, Kathleen E. (Contributor)
Broadway, Mary (Contributor)
Granzotto, Clara (Contributor)
Halstead, Whitney (Contributor)
Majeed, Faheem, 1976- (Contributor)
Minton, Laura K. (Contributor)
Sutherland, Ken (Contributor)
Language:English
Published: Chicago, IL : Art Institute of Chicago, [2021]
Edition:First edition.
Subjects:
Yoakum, Joseph, > 1886-1972 > Exhibitions.
Yoakum, Joseph, > 1886-1972.
African American artists > Exhibitions.
African American painters > Exhibitions.
Outsider artists > Exhibitions.
Art, American > United States > 20th century > Exhibitions.
Outsider art > United States > Exhibitions.
Artistes noirs américains > Expositions.
Peintres noirs américains > Expositions.
Artistes bruts > Expositions.
Art américain > États-Unis > 20e siècle > Expositions.
Art, American.
Outsider art.
United States.
1900-1999
Exhibition catalogs.
Catalogues d'exposition.
Genre:
Exhibitions.
Expositions.
Exhibition catalogs.
Catalogues d'exposition.
Physical Description:251 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), map ; 32 cm
Variant Title:
What I saw
Format: Book

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