His birthdates have also been given as 1886, 1888, and 1891, and his Veteran's Administration record says he was born in Springfield, Missouri. Yoakum left home when he was nine years old to join the Great Wallace Circus.
His work is an example of Outsider Art. ==Early life== Yoakum official records note that Yoakum was born in Ash Grove, Missouri, but he told a story of being born in Arizona, in 1888, as a Navajo Indian on the Window Rock Navajo reservation.
His birthdates have also been given as 1886, 1888, and 1891, and his Veteran's Administration record says he was born in Springfield, Missouri. Yoakum left home when he was nine years old to join the Great Wallace Circus.
His birthdates have also been given as 1886, 1888, and 1891, and his Veteran's Administration record says he was born in Springfield, Missouri. Yoakum left home when he was nine years old to join the Great Wallace Circus.
He later traveled to Europe as a stowaway. In 1908, he returned to Missouri and started a family with his girlfriend Myrtle Julian, with whom he had his first son in 1909; the couple married in 1910.
He later traveled to Europe as a stowaway. In 1908, he returned to Missouri and started a family with his girlfriend Myrtle Julian, with whom he had his first son in 1909; the couple married in 1910.
He later traveled to Europe as a stowaway. In 1908, he returned to Missouri and started a family with his girlfriend Myrtle Julian, with whom he had his first son in 1909; the couple married in 1910.
He became known for his organic forms, always using two lines to designate land masses. During the final four months of his life Yoakum's work was marked by a use of pure abstraction, as in his illustration Flooding of Sock River through Ash Grove Mo [Missouri] on July 4, 1914 in that [waters] drove many persons from Homes I were with the Groupe their homes for safety.
Yoakum was drafted into army service in 1918 and worked in the 805th Pioneer Infantry repairing roads and railroads. After the war, he traveled around the U.S.
In 1946, Yoakum was committed to a psychiatric hospital there.
He soon left and by the early 1950s, he was drawing on a regular basis.
He worked in a coal mine to support his family. ==Artistic work== Yoakum was again living and painting in Chicago by 1962.
in part myth, Yoakum's life as he would have wished to have lived it." In 1967, Yoakum was discovered by the mainstream art community through John Hopgood, an instructor at the Chicago State College, who saw Yoakum's work hanging in his studio window and purchased twenty-two pictures.
Tom Brand, owner of Galaxy Press on the south side of Chicago, in 1968 had some printing to deliver to a coffee shop called "The Whole".
1890 – December 25, 1972) was a self-taught landscape artist of African-American and possible Native American descent, who drew landscapes in a highly individual style.
In 1972, just one month before his death, Yoakum was given a one-man show at the Whitney Museum in New York City.
Yoakum: Visionary Traveler" The Clarion, Winter 1989/1990 Carnegie Museum of Art https://www.nytimes.com/1996/03/10/arts/art-view-in-love-with-the-myth-of-the-outsider.html 1890 births 1972 deaths African-American artists Outsider artists Artists from Missouri People from Ash Grove, Missouri American people of Cherokee descent American people of French descent 20th-century American artists Artists from Chicago American people who self-identify as being of Native American descent
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