Ink drawings and poems by contemporary outsider artist Charles Keeling Lassiter

  

This is part of a collection of ink drawings and poems by contemporary outsider artist Charles Keeling Lassiter. Created in New York, these small-sized drawings are a unique representation of Lassiter's distinctive style. Each piece is a one of a kind creation, making them highly original and collectible.

Each ink drawing was stapled to an original typed poem selected by Charles Lassiter. Charles Keeling Lassiter born in New York in 1926. He was a trained artist who is also considered an outsider because of his style and medium choices. His work is often described as raw and primitive, the effect is bold and powerful. He broke from the mainstream of the art world in the 1950s.

The central characters in his lively calligraphic figures, quizzical portraits, and bizarre animals, are on either canvas or paper as their surreal dance floors. Lassiter lived entirely alone and became agoraphobic and only leaving his apartment for inspiration. "For the type of work I do, " he said, you have to be alone, to think alone - You have to just observe and capture that inner source. It was not until 1956, curators from the Museum of Modern Art were the first to recognize his work and featured it in a contemporary drawing's exhibition. In addition to MoMA, his works can be now found in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Brooklyn Museum, the Yale University Art Gallery, the Carnegie Museum of Art, and the Collection de l'Art Brut in Lausanne, Switzerland.