William Fagaly (–2021)

"Sister Gertrude Morgan (1900 -1980) as a self-taught artist, evangelist, musician and poet who often used a multi-disciplinary approach as a vehicle for the expression her profound religious faith." Says the blurb.

Sister Gertrude started to paint in her own style, quite unlike anyone else's at all, at 56. The paintings are amazing, generally without any perspective and making use mainly of primary colours but also incorporating writing. Her strength and uniqueness, perhaps eccentricity, really comes through in the stories related in this monograph produced by the American Folk Art Museum. If I could give this book 6 stars, I would.

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