Norman Scott "Butch" Quinn 1994 Mixed Media Painting "No Fishing Allowed"

Item Details

Norman Scott “Butch” Quinn (Pennsylvania, 1939-2006)
No Fishing Allowed, 1994
Acrylic painting with wool and metal circumferences on canvas
Signed “N.S. Quinn” to the lower right
Inscribed to the verso and to the edges of canvas

A mixed media painting on canvas by self-taught American artist Norman Scott “Butch” Quinn (Pennsylvania, 1939-2006), dated 1994. This work exhibits the artist signature style featuring a stylized cat accented with metal circumferences and surrounded by multiple fish swimmming among a blue abyss. The work is signed “N.S. Quinn” to the lower right. It is also signed, titled and dated to the verso and along the edges of canvas. The composition is presented unframed.

Norman Scott “Butch” Quinn didn’t begin making art until the age of 35. He began making collages and paintings with found objects, paints, markers and other mixed medias exemplary of outsider and folk art. He was born June 16, 1939 in Oil City, PA. He is entirely untrained and his works combine elements of fantasy, religion and common life. Today, his works can be found in the collection of the Museum of American Folk Art in New York City, the Smithsonian Institution Museum of American Art in Washington, D.C., the Clarion University of Pennsylvania Museum and the Westmoreland Museum of American Art.

Condition

- minor wear along the edges of canvas; minor stains throughout the composition; small puncture to the upper right of the canvas.

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Item #

18DCC649-026