Author: Leslie Umberger

James Castle (1899-1977) spent his formative years in remote Garden Valley, Idaho and his adult life at locations near Boise, where, for nearly sev...

A richly illustrated history of self-taught artists and how they changed American artArtists without formal training, who learned from family, comm...

A major new look at the work of one of Americas foremost self-taught artistsBill Traylor (ca. 18531949) came to art-making on his own and found his...