Featured Primitive "Outsider" art?

I think I posted years ago when I was clearing out my cousins house. When she was in the nursing home they had art classes and I ended up with ten of her paintings. I think they're interesting. I listed them and didn't sell any. I'm wondering if I get frames it will make them more attractive. Any thoughts ?

 

The second pic of trees in the snow would make a nice Christmas card.

 

don't know that I'd call that outsider...... more Naive !

 

She certainly had an artistic sensibility. They'd be fun framed, but very simply.

Debora

 

i like the third one, accidentally quite good ?

 

and the second trees one actually, and maybe the one before

 

She was in a nursing home because she had early onset dementia. When she was younger I think she may have had some talent, but she was always 'different'. I was 8 years younger and I became her guardian after her mother passed. I really think these have potential. She died in 2015.

 

My favorite is the first. Not that anybody asked.

Debora

 

You can see that, but you also see that she couldn't always access that part of her brain. In that sense it is indeed outsider art imo. (Speaking as a brain-damaged person.)

Did you list them as a set or separately?

 

I like the first 2 and maybe also a bit the red barn one..

 

never heard of outsider art, but seems to describe them well googling it

might be an idea to list them individually one at a time, and try a frame like you mentioned

why i say this is if i came across one on ebay and checked your other listings, if i saw lots of them i would think its someone just getting rid

so i would try and focus on one at a time

i'm quite fond of a couple as mentioned, but a little effort into each one might get more attention

 

Why don't you list them individually at the same time? They'll get more attention that way.

Debora

 

That's what I was thinking. I almost want to frame them and add them to one of my own art shows. If only she'd had more encouragement when she was younger. Her life was pretty grim and I ended up living with her and her parents off and on when my mother couldn't care for me. As a child, you take everything for granted and don't realize it was bizarre until you're an adult. She took me to a lot of fascinating places, but....we would sleep in the car. She'd say, Let's go to Montreal and off we'd drive, spend a few days and drive home. She was single and had a decent office job so I'm sure we could have stayed in a motel, but she preferred driving down a country lane and 'camping'. We went to the World's Fair in New York when I was 14 and she was 22 and slept in the car for a week in the parking lot. Imagine that today. The Florida pavilion guys let us in every morning and we used the staff bathrooms to freshen up. We never bought a ticket and we got to stay in the park at night after the gates closed. It was magical, but could have been dangerous!

 

She'd say, Let's go to Montreal

I like her already !!!!!!

 

We still had a lot of family up there. My mother was born in 1909 and the youngest of 5. She didn't have me until she was 40. I was so much younger than anyone else in the family that I never really knew any of the older relatives. I suspect there are still a bunch of them up there but wouldn't know how to track them down.

 

we would....... got a lotta sniffer dawgs here !!

 

"Sniffer dawgs." I'm laughing.

Debora

 

familysearch.org is always a good place to start for family genealogy. A Latter-day Saints site, free to join.

Debora

 

The way things are going, I'm not sure I should contact them! If I went up to visit, I might not be able to get back home. I was arrested in 1967 for anti-war protest.

 

I framed one picture. It does look better in a frame. I'm thinking $125? Too much? $75? The frame cost $10.