Martín Ramírez
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Martín Ramírez (January 30, 1895 – February 17, 1963) was a
Biography
He was born on January 30, 1895, in Rincón de Velázquez, Tepatitlán, Jalisco, Mexico.[2] He married María Santa Ana Navarro Velázquez in 1918.[3] Ramirez
He died in 1963.[11]
Legacy
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In the 1970s, artists Jim Nutt and Gladys Nilsson, and art dealer Phyllis Kind bought almost all of Dunievitz's collection.[12] Phyllis Kind presented the first solo show of Martin Ramirez's work in Chicago in 1973.[13] Since his art was introduced into the art market in 1973, Ramírez's drawings and collages have become some of the most highly valued examples of outsider art.
In January 2007, the
While the 2007 retrospective, The Last Works, was on view at the American Folk Art Museum, that museum was contacted by descendants of Dr. Max Dunievitz, who served as medical director of DeWitt State Hospital in the early 1960s. Dunievitz had kept approximately 140 of Ramírez's drawings and collages from the last three years of his life; they were nearly discarded by family members upon the doctor's death in 1988. Dunievitz's grandson Phil, having seen the works during childhood visits to his grandfather's house, took them and brought them to his mother's house in Auburn, where they were stored for nearly 20 years in the garage. The heirs of Martín Ramírez challenged the ownership of this group of works, claiming that as the descendants, they deserved an ownership portion of this body of work.
In mediation, the Dunievitz and Ramírez families reached an amicable agreement in 2008, which includes the representation of this work by the Ricco/Maresca Gallery in New York City.
In October and November 2008, a portion of these drawings was concurrently exhibited at the Ricco/Maresca Gallery and the American Folk Art Museum. An accompanying full-color catalog was produced by Roger Ricco and Frank Maresca and published by Pomegranate Communications. It includes essays by Brooke Davis Anderson, Richard Rodriguez, and Wayne Thiebaud.
In December 2013, a lost Madonna by Ramírez was unveiled by the Library of Congress.[14]
In March 2015, "Untitled (Tunnel with Cars and Buses)" (1954), as well as four other designs, were reproduced as a stamp by the United States Postal Service.[15]
His works have sold up to $270,000 in Paris in 2013 and $134,500 in New York in 2011.[16]
References
- ^ "Martin Ramirez". The Guggenheim Museums and Foundation. January 20, 1954. Retrieved February 5, 2024.
- ^ "Martín Ramírez | Milwaukee Art Museum".
- ^ "Martín Ramírez | Milwaukee Art Museum".
- ^ "New Postage Stamps Recognize the Genius of Martin Ramirez". NPR.org.
- ^ "Martín Ramírez | Milwaukee Art Museum".
- ^ "New Postage Stamps Recognize the Genius of Martin Ramirez". NPR.org.
- ^ "Martin Ramírez's work honored on Forever stamps".
- ^ http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2007/01/29/mystery-train
- ^ Kennicott, Philip (December 7, 2013). "Work by Martín Ramírez, key 'outsider artist,' to be unveiled at Library of Congress". The Washington Post.
- ^ Smith, Roberta (26 January 2007). "Outside in". The New York Times.
- ^ "Martin Ramírez's work honored on Forever stamps".
- ^ "Deeper into Martín Ramírez's World: An Outsider Master's Vision in Never-Before-Seen Drawings". The New York Observer. 18 October 2011.
- ^ "Deeper into Martín Ramírez's World: An Outsider Master's Vision in Never-Before-Seen Drawings". The New York Observer. 18 October 2011.
- ^ Kennicott, Philip (December 7, 2013). "Work by Martín Ramírez, key 'outsider artist,' to be unveiled at Library of Congress". The Washington Post.
- ^ "At Martín Ramírez Opening, A Defense of Immigrant's Rights and Outsider Art". 28 March 2015.
- ^ "USPS Issues Martín Ramírez Stamps". 23 March 2015.
Further reading
- Anderson, Brooke Davis. Martín Ramírez. With an introduction by Robert Storr and essays by Víctor M. Espinosa and Kristin E. Espinosa, Daniel Baumann, and Victor Zamudio-Taylor. Seattle: Marquand Books in association with American Folk Art Museum, 2007.
- Anderson, Brooke Davis. Martín Ramírez: The Last Works. With essays by Richard Rodriguez, and Wayne Thiebaud. Petaluma, California: Pomegranate Communications in association with Ricco/Maresca Gallery, 2008.
- Espinosa, Víctor M. Martín Ramírez: Framing His Life and Art. University of Texas Press, 2015.
- Hollander, Stacy C., and Brooke Davis Anderson. American Anthem: Masterworks from the Harry N. Abrams, Inc., 2001.
- Hall, Michael D. "The Problem of Martin Ramirez: Folk Art Criticism as Cosmologies of Coercion", The Clarion, Winter 1986.
- Martin Ramirez: Framing His Life and Art by Victor M. Espinosa, 2015, University of Texas Press
External links
- “Martín Ramírez: The Last Works” at the Ricco/Maresca Gallery
- “Martín Ramírez: The Last Works” at the American Folk Art Museum
- The 2007 retrospective at the American Folk Art Museum
- Stephen Romano private art dealer in self taught artists including Martin Ramirez
- About “Martín Ramírez” (2007 retrospective), by Keith Miller (Spanish)
- Essayist Mexican American migrant worker. "Mad Visions." The Jim Lehrer News Hour.[1]
- Martín Ramírez. Reframing Confinement, Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, March 31 – July 12, 2010