American Visions: the Imbler Folk Art Collection November 20, 2009

A selection of over 40 works from the American folk art collection of Marty and Lisa Imbler will be included in the Evansville Museum's Main Gallery exhibition 'American Visions: The Imbler Folk Art Collection.' Acquired over the past twenty years with the expert guidance of Mike Smith, Director of the At Home Gallery in Greensboro, North Carolina, the Imbler Collection has an emphasis on art of the American South and includes paintings, drawings, sculpture, ceramics, and mixed media work by some of the country's best known self taught artists -- James Harold Jennings, Howard Finster, Bill Traylor, Jimmy Lee Sudduth, Sister Gertrude Morgan, Leroy Almon, Benjamin Franklin Perkins, Minnie Evans, Mary Tillman Smith, and Thornton Dial.