Collection Information
Size: 0.8 Linear feet
Summary: Photographs (color snapshots) and slides of American folk and self-taught artists and their artwork taken by Cynthia Johanson, a Folk Art Society of America and American Library Association member. The photographs were used as resource material for two reference books, "20th Century American Folk, Self Taught, and Outside Art," Neal Schuman publishers, 1993, and "Self Taught, Outsider, and Folk Art: A Guide to American Artist, Locations and Resources," McFarland & C. publishers, 2000, written as a collaboration by librarian Betty-Carol Sellen with Johanson.
Included are images of Minnie Adkins, Cyril Billiot, Ivy Billiot, Georgia Blizzard, Adam Brandau, Loy Bowlin, Vernon Burwell, Thornton Dial, Tom Every, James Harold Jennings, Norman Scott "Butch" Quinn, Rudy Rotter, J. P. Scott, Mary T. Smith, Herbert Singleton, Vollis Simpson, Fred Smith, and others.
Also included are a handful of photographs of art environment in Wisconsin, taken by Jane Botham in 2007, including works by John Bambic, Paul M. Dobberstein, Bob Watt, Mike "Ringo" White, Dan Erbstroesser, Mary Nohl, James Tellen, Rudy Potter, Sid Boyrum, Nick Engelbert, and Tom Every.