The Allure of Self-Taught Art | At the Smithsonian
Roger Catlin Museums Correspondent In the beginning, the weathervanes pointed the way. While scouring antique shops in the 1970s, Margaret Z. Robson purchased rustic, handmade barn toppers along with other handmade bits of Americana. Robson was “very attached to the American democratic experiment, so [she] bought weathervanes, and...