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Joseph E Yoakum PUBLICATIONS
1886 Window Rock, Arizona - 1972. Known for: Naive dream-landscape, outsider art.
The story of how the art of Joseph Yoakum first came to the public eye begins with a window, just as his life begins at Window Rock, Arizona, 'where I were born' as one of his titles says. As if his... Read full biography
The story of how the art of Joseph Yoakum first came to the public eye begins with a window, just as his life begins at Window Rock, Arizona, 'where I were born' as one of his titles says. As if his whole life was set to be a metaphor where every stone wall had a window to escape through. From his... Read full biography
The story of how the art of Joseph Yoakum first came to the public eye begins with a window, just as his life begins at Window Rock, Arizona, 'where I were born' as one of his titles says. As if his whole life was set to be a metaphor where every stone wall had a window to escape through. From his own words, his story begins when he ran away, and in time his feet walked every continent except Antarctica, from circus to circus, from town to town, from job to job. He loved to name the names of... Read full biography
The story of how the art of Joseph Yoakum first came to the public eye begins with a window, just as his life begins at Window Rock, Arizona, 'where I were born' as one of his titles says. As if his whole life was set to be a metaphor where every stone wall had a window to escape through. From his own words, his story begins when he ran away, and in time his feet walked every continent except Antarctica, from circus to circus, from town to town, from job to job. He loved to name the names of those places, when he told of those travels. But in 1967 Joseph Yoakum, age 79 (or 81, depending on your source) found himself living alone in a tiny store front on 82nd Street near Stony Island Avenue in Chicago. He had hit the stone wall of age. 'A... Read full biography
The story of how the art of Joseph Yoakum first came to the public eye begins with a window, just as his life begins at Window Rock, Arizona, 'where I were born' as one of his titles says. As if his whole life was set to be a metaphor where every stone wall had a window to escape through. From his own words, his story begins when he ran away, and in time his feet walked every continent except Antarctica, from circus to circus, from town to town, from job to job. He loved to name the names of those places, when he told of those travels. But in 1967 Joseph Yoakum, age 79 (or 81, depending on your source) found himself living alone in a tiny store front on 82nd Street near Stony Island Avenue in Chicago. He had hit the stone wall of age. 'A middle class black community. A decent neighborhood,' says a neighbor. But Yoakum didn't feel safe on the streets at night. He had to stay in the small... Read full biography
Joseph E Yoakum - Artist Info
About Joseph E Yoakum: Books
Books & Publications (17)
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Davenport's Art Reference: The Gold Edition
2005Davenport, Ray2,421 pagesTraveling the Rainbow: The Life and Art of Joseph E Yoakum
2000DePasse, Derrel B0 pagesWho Was Who in American Art, 1564-1975: Three Volumes
1999Falk, Peter Hastings (Editor)3,724 pagesContemporary American Folk Art A Collectors's Guide
1996Rosenak, Chuck and Jan320 pages (color)A World of Their Own: Twentieth Century American Folk Art (Newark Museum)
1995Jacobs, Joseph88 pages (color)African American Art
1994
(Exhibition catalog)San Antonio Museum of Art67 pages (color)Common Ground/Uncommon Vision Michael & Julie Hall Collection American Folk Art
1993
(Exhibition catalog)Lippard, Lucy/J Hayes/K Ames335 pages (color)American Self-Taught: Paintings and Drawings by Outsider Artists
1993Maresca, Frank, Roger Ricco298 pages (color)Free Within Ourselves: African-American Artists in the Collection of the National Museum of American Art
1993Perry, Regina A203 pages (color)Museum of American Folk Art Encyclopedia of 20th Century Folk Art and Artists
1990Rosenak, Chuck and Jan416 pages (color)African American Artists 1880-1987 Selections from the Evans-Tibbs Collection
1989McElroy, Guy C (others)125 pages (color)Who's Who in American Art-1986 1986
1986Jaques Cattell Press1,292 pagesArtists of the American West: Three Volumes A Biographical Dictionary
1985Dawdy, Doris1,184 pagesAmerican Folk Art of the Twentieth Century
1983Johnson, Jay; William Ketchum342 pages (color)Black Folk Art in America, 1930-1980 (Corcoran Gallery of Art)
1982
(Exhibition catalog)Livingston, Jane/J Beardsley186 pages (color)American Drawings and Watercolors
1973University of Kansas Museum80 pages