A major exhibition that examines the relationship between US self-taught artists and mainstream Modern and contemporary artists is due to travel across the country in 2018 and 2019. Outliers and American Vanguard Art kicks off at the National Gallery of Art in Washington, DC (28 January-13 May 2018) before travelling to the High Museum of Art in Atlanta in June 2018 and the Los Angeles County Museum of Art in November 2018. The show’s curator, Lynne Cooke, began working on the exhibition even before she joined the National Gallery in 2014, and it has been her primary focus since then. The show will bring together around 250 works by conventionally trained artists such as Christina Ramberg and Matt Mullican, self-taught artists including Horace Pippin and Janet Sobel, and works of folk art to illustrate mutual influence.
