Folder with pen & ink drawings, Louise Abrams, Outsider Art Collection, pen & ink on paper, 11" by 8.5", contains 20 drawings, from the collection of the artist.
This lot is part of a large collection of sculpture and paintings from a newly rediscovered "Outsider" artist of remarkable talent Louise Abrams.
Louise Abrams was born in 1941 studied in New York at the Art Students League, the New School and in Mexico at the Instituto Allende. She received her BA and has graduate work in the Fine Arts Department at CUNY, she had several gallery shows in the mid 1970's including Cloud Gallery June 1975, Auction 393 submissions in June 1975 and Pleiades Gallery exclusive show September 1975.
Her work has been described as "a microscopic view of life", "Native American, Aboriginal, Olmec inspired and "visionary".
Abrams' work and study has been interrupted throughout her life with severe mental and emotional challenges and has spent significant periods of her life in various institutions.
A number of themes, possibly visions, dominate the few thousand works comprising the total of Abrams’ work from the 1970’s to the early 2000’s all of which is court ordered to be sold by Hudson Valley Auctioneers.