by Elsa Mora | Apr 26, 2018 | Blog, Drawing, Outsider Art
“Born in 1990 in Queens New York, Nicole joined LAND in January of 2016. Her saturated compositions are portraits of her loved ones. Nicole has drawn Israeli flags and mussels in dedication to her Israeli neighbor who has a thing for shellfish. Her drawings of...
by Elsa Mora | Mar 7, 2014 | Blog, Outsider Art, Painting
* Mose Tolliver was born near Montgomery, Alabama. He was one of 12 children. He married his childhood friend, Willie Mae Thomas, in the 1940s and had 13 children. During the late 1960s, after a severe injury (his legs were crushed when a load of marble shifted and...
by Elsa Mora | Nov 19, 2013 | Blog, Drawing, Outsider Art
* “Bill Traylor was born into slavery in 1854 and spent most of his life sharecropping on that same Alabama plantation. Like most blacks of his generation,—the first generation of African American citizens,—Traylor was supposed to farm the land without owning...
by Elsa Mora | Nov 15, 2013 | Blog, Outsider Art, Painting
* I am in love with Eddie Arning’s work. Eddie was a violent person who spent most of his life in a mental institution. But I would have never guessed that by looking at these paintings. According to Wikipedia: “Eddie Arning (1898–1993) was born in the...
by Elsa Mora | Jan 16, 2011 | Blog, Drawing, Outsider Art
I received one of the latest issues of Raw Vision Magazine and what a wonderful surprise I found in it. The mysterious case of an artist known as The Electric Pencil. He or she (this artist’s identity is still a mystery) created an album with 283 drawings that...
by Elsa Mora | Jun 19, 2008 | Blog, Children, Outsider Art, Painting
Dear friend: Today I am extremely honored to introduce someone very special to you…but let me start the story from the beginning: Not so long ago I ended up at some Etsy shop that was new to me. As soon as I saw the pictures in it my heart had a little inusual...
