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Mary Frances Whitfield

(American, 1947–2023)

Mary Frances Whitfield

40 Acres and a Mule, January 2004

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Mary Frances Whitfield

Narrative: Bessie’s Handstand, In memory of my sister Bessie and my brother Greg, June 2002

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Mary Frances Whitfield

Runaway, 1999

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Mary Frances Whitfield

Untitled (interior of a cabin with lynched father), 1998

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Mary Frances Whitfield

My Ancestor’s Blood Cry from the Earth, ca. 1995

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Mary Frances Whitfield

Picking Cotton, 1990

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Mary Frances Whitfield

Lynching, 1995

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Mary Frances Whitfield

Moses and Baby Sam, 1999

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Mary Frances Whitfield

Burning Man, 1995–2001

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Mary Frances Whitfield

Narrative: Why Albert?

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Mary Frances Whitfield

Mary, 1994

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Mary Frances Whitfield

Bedtime, ca. 1989

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Timeline

1947: Born 14 April in Birmingham, Alabama, USA
1994: Included in Revelations: Alabama's Visionary Folk Artists, Birmingham, AL: Crane Hill Publishers
1996: Artist in Residence at the Museum of American Folk Art, New York, NY, USA
1997: Residency at The MacDowell Colony, Peterbough, NH, USA
2000: Received Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grant
2019: First solo museum exhibition of only lynching paintings, Mary Frances Whitfield: Why?, at AEIVA - Abroms-Engel Institute for the Visual Arts, University of Alabama, Birmingham, AL and the Birmingham Civil Rights Institute, in conjunction with the Jefferson County Memorial Project under the auspices of the Equal Justice Initiative, Montgomery, AL
Monograph: APT-Alabama Public Television, 27 June, hosted by Jackie Clay on Mary Frances Whitfield's solo lynching exhibitions at AEIVA-Abrams-Engel Institute for the Visual Arts, Birmingham, AL, and Birmingham Civil Rights Institute

Exhibitions

2023: Mary Whitfield Exhibitions in 2023:
Rising Sun: Artists in an Uncertain America, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts,Philadelphia, PA, USA
2021: Mary Whitfield Exhibitions in 2021:
Recent Acquisitions to the AEIVA Permanent Collection, Abroms-Engel Institute for the Visual Arts, University of Alabama, Birmingham, USA
2020: Mary Whitfield Exhibitions in 2020:
From Her Innermost Self: Visionary Art of Southern Women, Curated by Cindi Malinick and Dennis Harper, Jule Collins Smith Museum of Art, Auburn University, AL, USA
2019: Mary Whitfield Exhibitions in 2019:
Mary Frances Whitfield: Why?, Curated by: John Fields, and Dr. Brandon Wolfe, Abroms-Engel Institute for the Visual Arts, University of Alabama, Birmingham, and Birmingham Civil Rights Institute, in conjunction with the Jefferson County Memorial Project under the auspices of the Equal Justice Initiative, Montgomery, AL, USA (solo)
Mary F. Whitfield, Outsider Art Fair 2019 at the Metropolitan Pavilion, New York, NY. Presented by Phyllis Stigliano Art Projects, Brooklyn, NY, USA (solo)
2018: Mary Whitfield Exhibitions in 2018:
Remember, scenes of slavery by Mary F. Whitfield, Outsider Art Fair 2018 at the Metropolitan Pavilion, New York, NY. Presented by Phyllis Stigliano Art Projects, Brooklyn, NY, USA (solo)
2017: Mary Whitfield Exhibitions in 2017:
Third Space / Shifting Conversations About Contemporary Art, Curated by Wassan Al-Khudhairi, Birmingham Museum of Art, Birmingham, AL, USA
2015: Mary Whitfield Exhibitions in 2015:
Mary Whitfield, remember your past, Phyllis Stigliano Gallery, Brooklyn, NY, USA (solo)
2012 - 2013: Mary Whitfield Exhibitions in 2013:
The Female Gaze: Women Artists Making Their World (Linda Lee Alter Collection), Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia, PA, USA
2012: Mary Whitfield Exhibitions in 2012:
God Bless Our Home, Phyllis Stigliano Gallery with Galerie Bonheur, St. Louis,MO, Brooklyn, NY, USA (solo)
Intimate Interiors, Birmingham Museum of Art, Birmingham, AL, USA
2009: Mary Whitfield Exhibitions in 2009:
rainbow of uneven colors: Mary Whitfield, Phyllis Stigliano Gallery, Brooklyn, NY, USA (solo)
2008: Mary Whitfield Exhibitions in 2008:
Pollock – Krasner at Gallery North, Gallery North, Setauket, NY, USA
2007: Mary Whitfield Exhibitions in 2007:
Mary Frances Whitfield Retrospective, Guest curator: Laurie Griesedieck Carmody Ahner. Blackworld History Museum, Saint Louis, MO, USA (solo)
2004: Mary Whitfield Exhibitions in 2004:
Mary Frances Whitfield, Lynchings, remember each of them, Phyllis Stigliano Gallery, Brooklyn, NY, USA (solo exhibition)
Group Show, Part 2, Phyllis Stigliano Gallery, Brooklyn, NY, USA
Figuring the Feminine, Birmingham Museum of Art, Birmingham, AL, USA
2002: Mary Whitfield Exhibitions in 2002:
Cher Shaffer, Mary Whitfield, Berenberg Gallery, Boston, MA, USA
Visionary Art in America: Group Exhibition, Organized by Phyllis Stigliano, Philip Williams, New York, NY, USA
2001: Mary Whitfield Exhibitions in 2001:
Mary Whitfield, Katharina Rich Perlow Gallery, New York, NY, USA (solo)
Holiday Realities: 25 Visions by 25 Artists, Katharina Rich Perlow Gallery, New York, NY, USA
The Art of War and Peace, American Visionary Art Museum, Baltimore, MD, USA
New York Collection 2001, Albright-Knox Museum, Members Gallery, Buffalo, NY, USA
2000: Mary Whitfield Exhibitions in 2000:
African American Folk Artists in the 21st Century, UFA Gallery, New York, NY, USA
Hot Art - Summer 2000, Katharina Rich Perlow Gallery, New York, NY, USA
Southern Accents: Contemporary Southern Folk Art, Berenberg Gallery, Boston, MA, USA
Color: The Chicago Black Fine Art Exposition, Hosted by Oprah Winfrey, Represented by Galerie Bonheur, Grand Ballroom, Navy, Chicago, IL, USA
1999: Mary Whitfield Exhibitions in 1999:
African American History Month, The National Museum of Women in the Arts, Washington, D.C., USA
Love: Error and Eros, American Visionary Art Musuem, Baltimore, MD, USA
1998: Mary Whitfield Exhibitions in 1998:
Broken Dreams: Artwork by Mary Whitfield, Karl Drerup Fine Arts Gallery, Plymouth State College, Plymouth, NH, USA (solo)
Uncommon, Clark Gallery, Lincoln, MA, USA
1997: Mary Whitfield Exhibitions in 1997:
Wind in My Hair, American Visionary Art Museum, Baltimore, MD, USA
1996: Mary Whitfield Exhibitions in 1996:
Difficult Women, Cavin-Morris Gallery, New York, NY, USA
Speaking in Forms: African and African American Art from the Permanent Collections of the Birmingham Museum of Art, Birmingham Museum of Art, Birmingham, AL, USA
Tree of Life, American Visionary Art Museum, Baltimore, MD, USA
1995: Mary Whitfield Exhibitions in 1995:
Self-Taught Artists from the Collection of the Birmingham Museum of Art, Birmingham Museum of Art, Birmingham, AL, USA
1993: Mary Whitfield Exhibitions in 1993:
Mary Whitfield: A History Book, Organized by Phyllis Stigliano, Sea Cliff Gallery, Sea Cliff, NY, USA (solo)
Artist’s Plate “Feed the Hungry” Exhibition, Sea Cliff Gallery, Sea Cliff, NY, USA
1991: Mary Whitfield Exhibitions in 1991:
Recent Paintings by Mary Whitfield, Sea Cliff Gallery, Sea Cliff, NY, USA (solo)
1990: Mary Whitfield Exhibitions in 1990:
The Long Island Black Artists Association: 20 Years Later, Curated by Phyllis Stigliano, African American Museum, Hempstead, NY, USA

Public Collections

: American Folk Art Museum, New York, NY, USA
: AEIVA-Abroms-Engel Institute for the Visual Arts, University of AL, Birmingham, USA
: Birmingham Civil Rights Institute, Birmingham, AL, USA
: Birmingham Museum of Art, Birmingham, AL, USA
Equal Justice Initiative, Montgomery, AL, USA
: Jule Collins Smith Museum of Fine Art, Auburn University, AL USA
: Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia, PA, USA
: Raw Vision, UK

Literature

2023 - 2024: Stigliano, Phyllis. “Farewells,” RAWVISION, Mary Frances Whitfield (1947-2023), RV117,
2023: Raw Vision Weekly, UK, 10 November 2023 #346. Obituary: Mary Frances Whitfield (1947-2023) (4 illus).
: Stigliano, Phyllis. Remember Mary Frances Whitfield, 8 November 2023, [email protected] (illustration).
2021: Cascone, Sarah. "A Trustee Gave the American Folk Art Museum 40 Works by Horace Pippin, Bill Traylor, and Other Artists - See Images Here: Laura and Richard Parsons donated the works on the occasion of the museum's 60th anniversary," artnet news, 26 July 2021 (2 illustrations).
2019: “Women in Outsider Art,” RAWVISION, Women in Outsider Art, RV103, Autumn/Fall
: Cordes, Lisa, Alabama Public Television, Monograph: Mary Frances Whitfield, “An outsider artist’s unblinking look at racial terror,” PBS Newshour, Canvas, 4 November 2019 @ 4:01 PM, Video by APT (illustrations).
: Marvar, Alexandra. "Mary Frances Whitfield Bears Witness," The Nation, 29 Aug. 2019.
“Birmingham’s Native Daughter Mary Frances Whitfield Asks ‘Why?’,” Antiques and The Arts Weekly, Newtown, CT, 7 June, p. 6 (illustration).
Mary Whitfield in Birmingham, Alabama, RAW VISION WEEKLY, 31 May, UK. (illustration).
Stuart, Shauna. Mary Whitfield will give first solo exhibit in Birmingham as part of Memorial to lynching victims, AL.com, Alabama Media Group, 26 March.
Thomason, Shannon. “Why?” by Alabama artist Mary Frances Whitfield presented by UAB’s AEIVA May 31 Nov. 23, UAB News (University of Alabama, Birmingham, Abroms-Engel Institute for the Visual Arts), 22 February.
Gregory, Mary. “Outside Comes in at Outsider Art Fair.” Our Town/Downtowner, City Arts, New York, 10-16 January, p. 8 (illustration).
Monograph: Alabama Public Television, Summer, 27 June - Jackie Clay on lynching exhibitions, Mary Frances Whitfield: Why?, at Abroms-Engel Institute for the Visual Arts, University of AL, Birmingham, Curator and Senior Director John Fields; and Birmingham Civil Rights Institute, AL, Education Program Manager, Charles Woods III.
2018: Third Space / Shifting Conversations About Contemporary Art, Birmingham Museum of Art, Birmingham, Alabama. Published by Lucia/Marquand
Smith, Roberta. “Outside? Inside? Who Can Say Anymore?." The New York Times, Outsider Art Fair NY 2018, Friday, 19 January, p. C18
Lenox, Evan. “Fair Highlights,” 26th Edition of the Outsider Art Fair NY 2018, The Metropolitan Pavilion, 18-21 January, p.3 (illustration).
Boucher, Brian. The Homeless Man in the Driveway Is a Brilliant Artist? How Three Stars of the Outsider Art Fair Were Discovered – Mary F. Whitfield A Hiring Freeze, A Bus Ride in a Snowstorm, and a Sudden Calling, artnet News, 20 January (illustrations).
Doran, Anne. Masterpieces from the Margins: The Outsider Art Fair Triumphs in New York, Art media ARTNEWS, 19 January (illustration).
2017: Schwendener, Martha. “On the Margins, but Moving Toward the Center,” The New York Times, Outsider Art Fair NY 2017, Friday, 30 January, p. C34 (illustration).
2015: Indrisek, Scott, Art for Art’s Sake: Insider Picks at the Outsider Fair, 29 January, Blouin Artinfo. View slideshow.
1996: Raw Vision, UK, #49, Winter, Article, Mary Whitfield: African American life in the Deep South, by Gail Andrews Trechsel, Curator, Birmingham Museum of Art, AL.
1994: Revelations: Alabama's Visionary Folk Artists, Birmingham, AL: Crane Hill Publishers. Text: Kathy Kemp; Photographer: Keith Boyer; Intro by Gail Trechsel, Curator, Birmingham Museum of Art, AL.

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Mary Frances Whitfield

(American, 1947–2023)

Mary Frances Whitfield

Mary Frances Whitfield

Mary Frances Whitfield

Mary Frances Whitfield

Mary Frances Whitfield

Mary Frances Whitfield

Mary Frances Whitfield

Mary Frances Whitfield

Mary Frances Whitfield

Mary Frances Whitfield

Mary Frances Whitfield

Mary Frances Whitfield

Biography

Timeline

Exhibitions

Public Collections

Literature

Mary Frances Whitfield

(American, 1947–2023)

Mary Frances Whitfield

Mary Frances Whitfield

Mary Frances Whitfield

Mary Frances Whitfield

Mary Frances Whitfield

Mary Frances Whitfield

Mary Frances Whitfield

Mary Frances Whitfield

Mary Frances Whitfield

Mary Frances Whitfield

Mary Frances Whitfield

Mary Frances Whitfield

Biography

Timeline

Exhibitions

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Literature

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