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Artists and authors. Ellen Gould White, Adventist writer. Charlotte Perkins Gilman was a feminist writer, lecturer, and thinker at the turn of the 20th century. Suzanne Valadon, self-taught artist of Bohemian Paris. Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz, self-taught scholar and poet of New Spain. Benjamin Kidd (1858–1916), British sociologist, was not ...
Martín Ramírez. Martín Ramírez (January 30, 1895 – February 17, 1963) was a self-taught artist who spent most of his adult life institutionalized in California mental hospitals, diagnosed as a catatonic schizophrenic. He is considered by some to be one of the 20th century's best self-taught masters.
Matthew Wong (Chinese: 王俊傑; [1] March 8, 1984 – October 2, 2019) was a Canadian artist. Self-taught as a painter, Wong received critical acclaim for his work before his death in 2019 at the age of 35. [2][3][4] Roberta Smith, co-chief art critic at The New York Times, has praised Wong as "one of the most talented painters of his ...
1940–1980. Known for. Paintings of Black Southern life. Clementine Hunter (pronounced Clementeen; late December 1886 or early January 1887 – January 1, 1988) was a self-taught Black folk artist from the Cane River region of Louisiana, who lived and worked on Melrose Plantation. Hunter was born into a Louisiana Creole family at Hidden Hill ...
Jon Gnagy. Jon Gnagy (January 13, 1907 – March 7, 1981) was a self-taught artist most remembered for being America's original television art instructor, hosting You Are an Artist, which began on the NBC network and included analysis of paintings from the Museum of Modern Art, and his later syndicated Learn to Draw series. [2][3]
Henrik Aarrestad Uldalen (born 1986 in South Korea, but raised in Asker Norway) is a Norwegian oil painter. Uldalen is a self-taught artist whose work includes classic figurative painting. [1] He paints people in oils and then pieces these images in impossible scenes such as climbing upside down spiral staircases, or falling from tilted buildings.
Sister Gertrude Morgan (April 7, 1900 – July 8, 1980) [1][2] was a self-taught African-American artist, musician, poet and preacher. Born in LaFayette, Alabama, she relocated to New Orleans in 1939, where she lived and worked until her death in 1980. [3] Sister Morgan achieved critical acclaim during her lifetime for her folk art paintings.
Self-taught artists. Self-taught artists are artists who did not receive formal training in the visual arts, or whose formal training did not influence their artistic practice. Self-taught artists may or may not work as professional artists in the mainstream art world. Self-taught artists as a group do not necessarily belong to one particular ...