DAVID BUTLER (1898-1997) Camel, circa 1975
paint and plastic on metal
18 3⁄4 x 26 1⁄2 in.
DAVID BUTLER (1898-1997) Camel, circa 1975
paint and plastic on metal
18 3⁄4 x 26 1⁄2 in.
Acquired directly from the artist, circa 1975
Jane Livingston and John Beardsley, Black Folk Art in America 1930-1980 (Mississippi, 1982), cat. no. 42, p. 171.
New Orleans Museum of Art, David Butler, 13 February- 21 March 1976; New Orleans, Morgan City Municipal Auditorium, 11 April- 9 May 1976. Laurel, Mississippi, Lauren Rogers Museum of Art, Unschooled Artists, 1979. Brooklyn Museum of Art, Black Folk Art in America 1930-1980, 4 July- 12 September 1982. Washington D.C., Corcoran Gallery of Art, Black Folk Art in America 1930-1980, 15 Jan- 28 March; Louisville, Kentucky, J.B. Speed Museum, 26 April- 13 June; Brooklyn Museum of Art, 4 July- 12 September 1982; California, Los Angeles, Craft and Folk Art Museum, 30 November- 3 February 1983; Houston, Rice University, 4 March- 15 May 1983; Detroit Institute for the Arts, 10 July- 2 October; Birmingham, Alabama, Birmingham Museum of Art, 6 November- 26 December; Chicago, Illinois, Field Museum of Natural History, 26 December- 15 July 1984.
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