Wallace Allen Healey

Young Woman

When I moved downtown and met Herbert Freeman, I immediately felt he was someone important.  After a few months I decided to start this blog in order to expose his work to others.  It has been slow going, but I feel the effort has been worth it.  If nothing else I have provided proof of Mr. Freeman’s existence and a record of his work that I have been able to gather. 

Wallace Allen Healy was a homeless artist in San Francisco.  He created some impressive work by drawing on magazine pages with felt-tip pens.  There is very little information available about him on the web that I can find.  He appears to have participated in one group show while he was still alive and his work was featured in another group show seven years after his death. 

“Wally” Healy died of exposure behind the San Francisco Art Institute in December 1992. 

Two remembrances of Mr. Healy here and here. 

 

 

 

 

 

For Your Pleasure

We have new friends who are visiting from Jim Linderman’s blog Dull Tool Dim Bulb.  Welcome, I hope you find Mr. Freeman’s art as intriguing as I do.  To help you to know Herbert Freeman a little better I am reposting a student film that was made about him a few years back.

Stoned Immaculate

Shahzadi

There is a homeless man who is walking the entire coastline of  Britain and building pebble art pieces along the way.  He goes by the name of Dr. Geebers and began constructing his sculptures on Brighton Beach in 2008.  Right now he is somewhere north of  Morecambe, Lancashire.  Dr. Geebers has been homeless for over ten years and fell into a life of substance abuse.  Since he started his challenge he has stopped using drugs and keeps his drinking to brandy at night to help him keep warm.

 

Nizam-ul-Mulk

Nizam-ul-Mulk

Woman with a Hat

Woman with a Hat

Art From the Streets is an organization that provides art materials and a space to work for homeless artists in Austin, Texas.  Every year they have an art sale which has become a popular event in the city. 

Marquessa

Marquessa

 

Today I discovered a Flickr page of misspelled protest signs photographed at Tea Party rallies.

It’s Quilted

Vanessa

Here are examples of artistic expression from two isolated communities of the African diaspora.  The quilters of Gee’s Bend, Alabama are fairly well-known here in the United States.  Especially among quilting enthusiasts. 

Below is a video featuring Bill Arnett an ardent admirer, scholar, and collector of African-American art from the southern United States.  Through his efforts the Gee’s Bend quilts and the women who created them became recognized. 

The scholarship of Henry John Drewel has exposed the quiltwork of the Siddi women of Karnataka India to a larger audience.  The Siddi are an African-Indian community mostly descended from slaves brought to Goa by the Portuguese.  

 

 

 

 

 

Tyree

Tyree

This video is of the Outsider Art Fair in New York City, an important annual event which brings attention to some of the best art created out of the mainstream of the culture.  I am fairly confident that Herbert Freeman’s art will be represented here in 2011.

Levi

Levi

Darśana

Darśana