Other People’s Collections I

Roger Brown, a Chicago Imagist, left his home with his collections to the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and I was lucky enough to get to see it (visits need to be arranged) last year as part of the Intuit summit. He collected the work of other Imagists, outsider artists, folk and indigenous art, popular culture objects, costumes, textiles, furniture, souvenirs and more! He lived above his studio/gallery in a small apartment and it has been preserved with all his collections intact. It was amazing to see works by Howard Finster, Henry Darger, and other artists whom I’m used to seeing in museums casually displayed in a home.

There was much much more – to much to photograph everything but I couldn’t resist taking a picture of this egg carton cross.

An amazing collection- I’m going to have to arrange another visit.