![]() ![]() Recasting American art history to embrace artists who have been excluded for too long, We Are Made of Stories vividly captures the power of art to show us the world through the eyes of another. We Are Made of Stories: Self-Taught Artists in the Robson Family Collection Robson from the Robson Family Collection, Promised gift to SAAM, © 2022 Howard Finster, Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York, photo by Scott Saraceno He built his Paradise Garden of everchanging sculpture on land behind his house in the early 1960s.Ĭollection of Douglas O. The Reverend Howard Finster (above: Self-Portrait, 1975) had a devoted following and his distinctive works were festooned with declarations and sermons. After her death, 93 works were donated in 2016 to the Smithsonian American Art Museum (SAAM) in Washington, D.C., which had already established itself as a leading center for this unique and arresting branch of American art. Robson had amassed one of the most significant collections of such art in the country, dating back to the early 20th century. ![]() His mother was drawn to the people behind the art, known and unknown, and through collecting, helped others become more aware of the leading lights in what was once called folk art, then outsider art and now categorized as self-taught. “The collecting morphed into something more interesting and radical as time went on.” Robson was “very attached to the American democratic experiment, so bought weathervanes, and duck decoys and quilts,” says her son Doug Robson, who inherited his mother’s interests. Robson purchased rustic, handmade barn toppers along with other handmade bits of Americana. While scouring antique shops in the 1970s, Margaret Z. In the beginning, the weathervanes pointed the way. ![]()
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