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"(In the 1930's, Scottie Wilson) started drawing in a distinctive linear style, conveying an archetypal struggle between goodness and evil-the former represented in the shapes of nature (birds, fish, and plants), the latter personified in the demonic faces he called "evils" or "greedies". He later agreed to show in London galleries, and his work was included in the exhibition Surrealist Diversity at the Arcade Gallery in 1945 alongside works by Giorgio de Chirico and Paul Klee. Thereafter, Wilson attracted a number of dedicated supporters and collectors, chiefly Surrealists like E.L.T. Mesens and Roland Penrose and later Dubuffet, who unhesitatingly saw the work as art brut" (Private Worlds: Classic Outsider Art from Europe, New York, 1998, p. 34).
PROPERTY FROM THE ROBERT M. GREENBERG COLLECTION
SCOTTIE WILSON (1882-1972)
Untitled
Details
SCOTTIE WILSON (1882-1972)
Untitled
signed 'Scottie' (lower right)
ink and crayon on paper
15 x 11 in. (38 x 27.1 cm.)
Executed circa 1950s.
Untitled
signed 'Scottie' (lower right)
ink and crayon on paper
15 x 11 in. (38 x 27.1 cm.)
Executed circa 1950s.
Provenance
Phyllis Kind Gallery, New York
Exhibited
New York, Rosa Esman Gallery, European Outsiders: An Exhibition of ART BRUT, October-November 1986, p. 98, cat. no. 64.
Gérard A. Schreiner Gallery, Outsiders, April-July 1988, p. 132, cat. no. 107 (illustrated).
Gérard A. Schreiner Gallery, Outsiders, April-July 1988, p. 132, cat. no. 107 (illustrated).