This publication contains the proceedings of the symposium “Unexpected Partners: Self-Taught Artists and Modernism in Interwar America,” which took place on January 27th, 2023, alongside the 2022 exhibition Morris Hirshfield Rediscovered at the American Folk Art Museum (AFAM).
Intended as an extension of the exhibition’s scholarly pursuits, the program revisited the foundational paradigms of the modernist narrative through the contributions of artists like Morris Hirshfield, who worked at the margins of the art establishment in the interwar period.
Contributors include: Bill Anthes, Esther Adler, Susan Davidson, Julia Bryan-Wilson, Lynne Cooke, Jane Kallir, Jennifer Jane Marshall, Richard Meyer, Angela Miller, Rodrigo Moura, Marci Kwon, Valérie Rousseau, Nicole Smythe-Johnson and Brooke Wyatt.
