'Outsider Art' At Phila. Museum Of Art 3/3 - 6/9/13

MUSEUM TO PRESENT EXHIBITION DEVOTED TO MAJOR COLLECTION OF WORKS BY SELF-TAUGHT ARTISTS “Great and Mighty Things” Outsider Art from the Jill and Sheldon Bonovitz Collection   March 3–June 9, 2013 Dorrance Galleries This spring, more than two hundred objects from one of the United States’ finest private collections of works by American self-taught artists will be on view at the Philadelphia Museum of Art. “Great and Mighty Things”: Outsider Art from the Jill and Sheldon Bonovitz Collection will present drawings, paintings, sculptures, and other objects by twenty-seven artists who worked outside the boundaries of the mainstream modern and contemporary art world. The exhibition includes artists such as William Edmondson, Martín Ramírez, and Bill Traylor who are iconic figures among self-taught artists and have been recognized as significant figures in the broader field of American twentieth-century art.