| 词条 | Bessie Harvey |
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| bgcolour = | name = Bessie Harvey | image =Bessie_Harvey.jpg | imagesize = | caption = Bessie Harvey, Golden Dreams (n.d.) | birth_name = Bessie Ruth White | birth_date = {{Birth date|1929|10|11|}} | birth_place = Dallas, Georgia | death_date = {{death date and age|1994|08|12|1929|10|11}} | death_place = Alcoa, Tennessee | nationality = American | field = | training =Self-taught | movement = | works = | patrons = | influenced by = | influenced = | awards = }} Bessie Harvey (born Bessie Ruth White, October 11, 1929 – August 12, 1994) was an American folk artist best known for her sculptures constructed out of found objects, primarily pieces of wood. Her work is often categorized as outsider art, visionary art, or self-taught art. BiographyBorn in Dallas, Georgia, Harvey was the seventh of thirteen children born to Homer and Rosie Mae White. At the age of fourteen she married Charles Harvey and settled in Buena Vista, Georgia.[1] She divorced Harvey in 1968 and relocated independently to Alcoa, Tennessee, where she was raising eleven children by age 35.[2][1] A deeply religious person, Harvey's faith and her own interest in nature were primary sources for her work. As a child, she recalls making "something out of nothing," often creating her own toys and dolls.[3] In 1977, Harvey began working at Blount Memorial Hospital. After exhibiting her artwork at the hospital, her work drew attention and gallery representation.[4] After that time, she increasingly focused on her artwork until her death in 1994.[3] In addition to having eleven children, Harvey had twenty-eight grandchildren and three great-grandchildren.[1] WorkTo support her 11 children, at night while everyone was asleep Harvey would make dolls. [5]Harvey's sculptures were typically wood decorated with paint, beads, shells, cloth, and other found materials, combining "performance (on the order of a puppet show) sculpture, painting, and assemblage".[6] Her work first gained attention when she entered a piece in the Blount Memorial Hospital's annual art show in 1974, where she was working as a housekeeper's aid.[2] One of the staff doctors introduced her to the directors of the Cavin-Morris Gallery in New York City, which continued to sell her work exclusively for several years.[2] Harvey's work belongs to a larger tradition of black folk art created in the American South. The assemblage aspect of her work, the use of found materials, and emphasis on religious themes are common to the black folk art tradition. As a visionary artist, she often claims that God is the main source for her work, even to the extent that he is working through her: "I’m really not the artist. God is the artist in my work; nature and insects, they shape my work for me, because they belong to God. I belong to God, and all things belong to God, because it’s in his Word that all things are made to him, that without him there’s not anything made."[7] According to Harvey, God allowed her to see anthropomorphic forms within the wood she worked with, and with that help she could give physical shape to the spiritual presences within these tree roots, limbs, and pieces of driftwood. Her interest in nature was due in part to her belief that she could access or see the spirit of her ancestors within trees, for example, and the general belief that God and nature are one. Her work often reflected specific biblical stories, including stories from Genesis and Revelation.[4] She also created a series of works inspired by the African-American experience in the United States.[8] When naming her works, she frequently used an African-English dictionary to provide a direct connection to African culture.[1] Exhibitions, holdings, and influenceHarvey's work has been included in over 50 exhibitions, including a posthumous inclusion in the 1995 Whitney Biennial. Her work Cross Bearers was subsequently purchased by the Whitney Museum for its permanent collection.[9] She was also the subject of a major retrospective in 1997 at the Tennessee Museum of Art.[10] Her works are in the permanent collections of the Knoxville Museum of Art[11] and the American Folk Art Museum, New York.[12][13] Harvey has been cited as an influence by Alison Saar,[14] and a street in Alcoa has been named after her.[15] References1. ^1 2 3 {{Cite book|url=http://www.worldcat.org/title/encyclopedia-of-american-folk-art/oclc/999123349&referer=brief_results|title=Encyclopedia of American Folk Art|last=Wertkin|first=Gerard C|date=2014|isbn=9780203644485|language=English}} 2. ^1 2 {{Cite book|url=http://catalog.hathitrust.org/api/volumes/oclc/40869639.html|title=Contemporary women artists|last=Hillstrom|first=Laurie Collier|last2=Hillstrom|first2=Kevin|date=1999|publisher=St. James Press|location=Detroit|language=English}} 3. ^1 {{cite web|last1=Harvey|first1=Bessie|title=Bird and Spirit Root by Bessie Harvey|url=http://intuitiveeye.org/Bird-and-Spirit-Root-by-Bessie-Harvey|website=intuitiveeye.org|accessdate=8 March 2015}} 4. ^1 {{Cite book|title = American Folk Art: A Regional Reference|last = |first = |publisher = ABC-CLIO|year = |isbn = 9780313349362|location = |pages = 200–202}} 5. ^{{Cite book|title=Gumbo Ya Ya|last=King-Hammond|first=Leslie|publisher=Midmarch Arts Press|year=1995|isbn=1-87765-07-5|location=New York|pages=93}} 6. ^{{Cite book|title = Creating Their Own Image: The History of African-American Women Artists|last = Farrington|first = Lisa|publisher = Oxford University Press|year = 2005|isbn = 9780195167214|location = |pages = 247–249}} 7. ^{{cite web|last1=Harvey|first1=Bessie|title=God is the Artist|url=http://soulsgrowndeep.org/artist/bessie-harvey|website=Souls Grown Deep|accessdate=8 March 2015}} 8. ^{{Cite journal|url = http://issuu.com/american_folk_art_museum/docs/clarion_12_3_spr-sum1987|title = Bessie Harvey: the Spirit in the Wood|last = Morris|first = Shari Cavin|date = 1987|journal = The Clarion|doi = |pmid = |access-date = 8 March 2015}} 9. ^{{Cite journal|url = https://books.google.com/books?id=FEMEAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA76|title = Bessie Harvey's Sculpture: The Beast in the Tree Trunk|last = Perry|first = Paul Wardell|date = 2000|journal = The Crisis|doi = |pmid = |access-date = 8 March 2015|issue = July–August 2000}} 10. ^{{Cite book|title = The Grove Encyclopedia of American Art, Volume 1|last = |first = |publisher = Oxford University Press|year = 2011|isbn = 9780195335798|location = |pages = 465}} 11. ^{{Cite book|url=https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/37004186|title=Awakening the spirits : art by Bessie Harvey : an exhibition organized by the Knoxville Museum of Art, in collaboration with Austin-East High School : Knoxville, Tennessee, April 4-July 27, 1997|last=C.|first=Wicks, Stephen|date=1997|publisher=The Museum|others=Harvey, Bessie, 1929-1994., Stein, Judith E., Cogswell, Robert S., Knoxville Museum of Art., Austin-East High School (Knoxville, Tenn.)|isbn=0963588141|location=Knoxville, Tenn.|oclc=37004186}} 12. ^Ancestry & Innovation: African American Art from the American Folk Art Museum Smithsonian Institution, 2001 13. ^{{Cite web|url = http://collection.folkartmuseum.org/view/people/asitem/H/6?t:state:flow=d3bd52eb-199c-43d2-afd3-e64413bca270|title = Artists: Bessie Harvey|date = |accessdate = 8 March 2015|website = American Folk Art Museum|publisher = |last = |first = }} 14. ^{{Cite book|title = Women and Religion in the African Diaspora: Knowledge, Power, and Performance|last = |first = |publisher = JHU Press|year = 2006|isbn = 9780801883699|location = |pages = 208}} 15. ^{{Cite book|title = Alcoa|last = |first = |publisher = Arcadia Publishing|year = 2011|isbn = 9780738587813|location = |pages = 123}} External links
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