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Dowdall's work has been collected & exhibited, internationally. Brian has a following far & wide …from celebrities to locals.
Major collectors of brian's art
Brian Dowdall is listed in the Resource Guide Book, 20th Century American Folk & Outsider Art by Betty-Carol Sellen and U American Folk-Art: A Collector’s Guide by Chuck and Jan Rosenak. Dowdall is included in time following collections of:
Herb Hemphill - New York City. Mr. Hemphill has awing at the Smithsonian Institute for his own Folk Art Collection. including some of Dowdall's work.
Dr. Kurt Gitter, collector and organizer of the “Passionate Visions” show for the New Orleans Museum of the Arts
Chuck and Jan Rosenak, authors of Museum of American Folk Art Encyclopedia of2oth Century American Folk Art and Artists, Tesuque, New Mexico
Betty Carol Sellen, author of 20th Century Folk self-taught and outsider art
Myron B. Shur - Chicago, Illinois
Arne Anton - American Primitive Gallery - New York City
Johnathan Demme - Film director - New York City, Collection of primitive art
Ty and Jean Tyson - Tyson Trading Co. - Micanopy, FL
Tamara Hendershot - Vanity Novelty Garden - Miami Beach, Florida
Jimmy Hedges - Rising Fawn - Chattanooga, Tennessee
Cecile Thompson - Timpson Creek - Clayton, Georgia
Mark Newman - Gainesville, Florida
Phillip Williams - New York City - Columbus, Georgia
Ginger Young - Chapel Hill, North Carolina
Larry & Jane Schlachter - Summerville, Georgia
Joe Adams - America Oh Yes - Hilton Head Island, South Carolina & Washington DC
Elayne Scott - Red Piano Two - St. Helena island, South Carolina
Micki Beth Stiller - Cottonbelt - Montgomery, Alabama,
Tom Wells - Weathervane - Thompson, Georgia -
Charlie Coleman - Presidio
Georgine Clark - Alabama State Council of the Arts - Montgomery, Alabama
Miah Michaelsen, Executive Director - Kentuck Museum - Northport, Alabama
T. Marshall Hahn - Atlanta, Georgia
John Glover, Actor - California TV
Dave Brubeck, Jazz Musician - Wilton, Connecticut
Chet Goldstein - Folkwear - Tuscaloosa, Alabama
Stephanie Smitherr - Houston, Texas
Dr. Wang Jin-Huai of the Bill Moyers TV series ‘Healing and the Mind”, + Beijing, China
City Hall of Orlando, Florida.
Montefiore Medical Center/University Hospital for the Albert Einstein College of Medicine - Bronx, NY
Nancy and Robert Claster - Philadelphia
Mose Allison, Jazz Musician - New York
Johnny Cash and June Carter, Country Musicians
Douglas Gitter, owner of Doug’s Place Restaurant 4 New Orleans, Louisiana
Van Morrison, Musician - Ireland
Rebecca Hoffberger, founder, American Visionary Art Museum - Baltimore, Maryland
Baron Gordon - Williamsburg, Pennsylvania
Ann and William Oppenhimer - Folk Art Society of America
Myrna Smoot - Abbeyville Press, New York
Rev. Howard Finster & Beverly Finster - Paradise Garden - Summerville, Georgia
Laurent Danchin - “RAW VISION” - Paris, France
Pascale Tascone - Paris, France
Kenneth C. Burkhart - Curator of Outsider Art, An Exploration of Chicago Collections
Trish Mallard - Worcester Art Museum - Worcester, Massachusetts
Russell Banks - Author
Martine Lusardy - Curator of Halle Saint Pierre Museum - Paris France
Marshall Anderson - Journalist of Visionary Art - Dundee, Scotland
Judith Mcnicol - Edinburgh, Scotland
Mennello Museum of American Folk Art - Orlando, Florida - Frank Holt Director
Patrick McGee, Ph.D. - Edinburgh, Scotland
House of Blues - Downtown Disney, Orlando, Florida
Frank Holt - Orlando, Florida
Phillip Williams NYC
Kimball M. Sterling, Kimball M. Sterling Inc. Antiques TN
Brian Noyes, Smithsonian Editor now the Red Truck Bakery of Virginia
Barry & Allen Huffman, private collection, Hickory NC
John Ogren, Carlton Arms Hotel, NYC
Dan Reck, VISIONARY board member, MD
Margaret & Robert Allen, photojournalist/private collection, NC
Sarah Fisbey, Gypsy Junque, NC
J Justice, Chapel Hill, NC
Lynn Creech, studio 321, private collection, NC
Ted Frankel, Side Show AVAM, MD
Pearl & Metra Fryar, Pearl Fryar Gardens, SC
Dalton Stevens, "the Button King" Bishopville, SC
Charles Spellman, House of Blues Orlando, FL
Suzanne Smithson, arts patron saint, FL
John Stephens, Stress Management, Cocoa Beach, FL
Tom Quill, AMERPRISE, M.I., FL
Stephen Craig, Jackson Hewitt, Melbourne FL
Ed Burd, KEYES realty, Edgewater FL
Peter Schreyer, Crealde' School of Art, Winter Park, FL
Lois King, Screen Porch Art, TX
Jon Clark, Home & Planet, Bethlehem, PA
Alyx Kellington, photojournalist, West Palm, FL
Trish & Joe Barker, Brevard Eye, FL
Mr. Imagination, Visionary extraordinaire, (art exchanges)
Art Exchange: many barters & trades with the tried and true folk artist
to contemporary visionaries today,
as well as, in goods and services
from Dave's Tire to Dr. Allen Earle. a wonderful journey part & parcel.
Brian Dowdall, Robert F. Seven & Alison Spiesman completed an "outsider" quest room 11-B at Ye Ol'Carlton Arms Hotel, NYC.
Carlton Arms Hotel
Dowdall’s paintings were included in the gallery shows of:
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Mennello Museum of American Folk Art - Orlando, Florida - invitational show ...self taught
folk artist outsiders were asked to do a rendition of the Peaceable Kingdom - 9/11 in 2001 exhibit
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Vernissage - Paris - Curator Pascale Tascone - November 1998
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Galerie Michel Gillet - Paris - Curator Pascale Tascone - February 4 - March 7, 1999
Dowdall's animal spirit sand paintings are available at:
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Jimmy Hedges - Rising Fawn - Chattanooga, Tennessee
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Ginger Young, Chapel Hill, NC
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Phillip Williams, NYC
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Tom Wells, Weathervane, GA
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Ty & Jean Tyson, Tyson Trading & Co, Micanopy, FL
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Charlie Coleman, Presidio
Gallery and museum catalog representations of brian's paintings:
"The Passionate Eye" ~ City Hall of Orlando
June, 1994 ~ Frank Holt, Curator
"Outsider Art an Exploration of Chicago Collections" ~ Chicago Cultural Center
Dec., 1996 - Feb., 1997 ~ Kenneth C. Burkhart, Curator
The Mennello Museum of American Folk Art Selected Works From Permanent Collection of American Folk Art
June, 1999 - Jan., 2000 ~ Frank Holt, Curator
Magazine and Newspaper Articles:
Fashion Spectrum Magazine, Miami Florida
September, 1996 Issue
Folk Art Messenger, The Folk Art Society of America
Fall, 1997 & Spring, 1999 Issues
Chicago Sun Times, "Art-Centric Folk"
June, 1997 Issue
Brevard Live, "Outsider Art About the Insides of Life"
Feb., 1997 (Click here to view article)
Folk Art Finder
Spring, 1998 Issue
Raw Vision Magazine, "Raw News"
Issue #9, 1994
Florida Today, People Section
Nov. 12, 1999 (Click here to view article)
Resource guide books you can find brian in:
Brick by Brick
documenting lives & telling stories by
Raymond J. Baldino, CPP
Extraordinary Interpretations
by Gary Monroe
A newly published, hardcover book featuring Florida Outsider Folk Artists
Contemporary American Folk Art -
A Collectors Guide by Chuck and Jan Rosenak
20th Century American Folk Art and Outsider Art
by Betty-Carol Sellen
Just Above The Water by Kristin G.Congdon and Tina Bucuvalas
Affirmations Artists Speak - collection of essays by the Green Room Group
Annual art shows you can find brian at:
'Outsider Art Fair' ~ Puck Building, New York City
From 1993 - 2009
Shows in Europe
'American Outsider Folk Art Show'
Halle St. Pierre Museum ~ Paris, France
Sept., 1998 - Sept., 2000
'International Edinburgh Festival' ~ Scotland
August, 1999
"Vernissage" ~ Paris, France
November 1998 ~ Pascale Tascone, Curator
"Galerie Michel Gillet" ~ Paris, France
Feb. 4 - March 7, 1999 ~ Pascale Tascone, Curator
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