I N TU I T THE CENTER FOR INTUITIVE AND OUTSIDER ART This catalog produced in conjunction with the exhibition UNREAL REALMS January 20-March 26, 2017 Curated by Jan Petry INTUIT: The Center for Intuitive and Outsider Art 756 N. Milwaukee Avenue Chicago, Illinois 60622 T312.243.9088 F312.243.9089 intuit@art.org Copyright 2017 Intuit: The Center for Intuitive and Outsider Art All rights reserved. No portion of this book may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or any means, mechanical, electronic, photocopying, recording or otherwise without written permission from the publisher. Intuit thanks its many supporters, including the Alphawood Foundation, the City of Chicago’s Department of Cultural Affairs and Special Events, the Crown Family Philanthropies, the Gaylord & Dorothy Donnelley Foundation, the MacArthur Funds for Arts and Culture at The Richard H. Driehaus Foundation, Duane Morris LLP, The Field Foundation of Illinois, the Illinois Arts Council Agency, Ingenuity, the Maine Community Foundation, Polk Bros Foundation, the Terra Foundation for American Art, and its official airline, Southwest.
Intuit’s mission — celebrating the power of outsider art — is grounded in the ethos that the instinct to create is universal and the arts must embrace, represent and be accessible to all, regardless of education level or socioeconomic status. Outsider art is created by artists who are motivated by their unique personal visions and demonstrate little or no influence from the mainstream
Cover: Henry Darger, Untitled (Blengin), (detail) n.d. Watercolor and pencil on paper ©Kiyoko Lerner/Artists Rights Society (ARS) New York
Title page: Adolf Wölfli, Untitled, n.d. The Waldau Clinic, Bern, Switzerland. Graphite, colored pencil and crayon on paper Photo by Visko Hatfield Lender page: Adolf Wölfli, Automatic Writing, n.d. Photo by John Faier Back cover: Achilles G. Rizzoli Trilogy: The Man, 1943. Ink on rag paper,
art world. Founded in 1991, Intuit is one of the premier museums in the world dedicated to presenting outsider and self-taught art.