Modern primitive, the term used in the early 20th century, especially the 1930s and 1940s, to promote self-taught artists in Europe and the U.S., the first and most famous of whom was the French painter
Henri Rousseau. The U.S. constituents, who came to public attention in the 1920s, 1930s, and 1940s, included painters
Morris Hirshfield,
John Kane,
Anna Mary Robertson Moses,
Horace Pippin,
Bill Traylor, and sculptor
William Edmondson.
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Modern primitive, the term used in the early 20th century, especially the 1930s and 1940s, to promote self-taught artists in Europe and the U.S., the first and most famous of whom was the French painter
Henri Rousseau. The U.S. constituents, who came to public attention in the 1920s, 1930s, and 1940s, included painters
Morris Hirshfield,
John Kane,
Anna Mary Robertson Moses,
Horace Pippin,
Bill Traylor, and sculptor
William Edmondson.
Topics referred to by the same term
This
disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title Modern Primitives. If an
internal link led you here, you may wish to change the link to point directly to the intended article.