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John Bunion Murray

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John Bunion Murray
Glascock County (en) Translate, 1908
O ya TiŋgbaŋAmerica
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Kpibu sheeSandersville (en) Translate, Silimin gɔli September 18, 1988
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John Bunion (J.B.) Murray (bɛ lahi sabiri li la Murry; 1908–1988) daa nyɛla nuchee ni baŋda ka o tuma nyɛ din jɛndi pɛntibu ka yina Glascock County, GA.[1]

Exhibitions and permanent collections

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Murray's tumanima nyɛ din doli na ŋɔ:

  • Baking in the Sun: Visionary Images from the South, 13 Jun.- 31 Jul 1987, University Art Museum, Lafayette, LA.[2]
  • Outside the Mainstream; Folk Art in Our Time. May–August 1988, High Museum of Art at Georgia Pacific Center, Atlanta, GA.
  • Afro-American Folk Artists. 30 Jul.- 7 Aug. 1988, Berman Gallery, Atlanta, GA.
  • Gifted Visions:Black American Folk Art, 1988, Atrium Gallery, University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT.
  • American Resources: Selected Works of American American Artists. 26 Aug- 24 Sep, 1989, Bernice Steinbaum Gallery, New York, NY.
  • Another Face of the Diamond: Pathways Through the Black Atlantic South. 1989, New Visions Gallery, New York, NY.
  • Black History, Black Vision: The Visionary Image in Texas. 27 Jan.- 19 Mar. 1989, Archer m. Huntington Gallery, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX.
  • A Density of Passions, Aug 1989, New Jersey State Museum, Trenton, NJ.
  • Gifted Visions: African American Folk Art. 27 Jan- 24 Feb. 1990, University Art Gallery, University of Massachusetts, Dartmouth, MA.
  • J.B. Murry, 15 Dec. 1990- 12 Jan, 1991, Phyllis Kind Gallery, New York.
  • Parallel Visions: Modern Artists and Outsider Art. 18 Oct. 1992- 3 Jan. 1993, Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA), Los Angeles, CA.
  • Pictured in My Mind: Contemporary American Self-Taught Art from the collection of Dr. Kurt Gitter and Alice Rae Yelen. 1995, Birmingham Museum of Art, Birmingham, AL.
  • Wrestling with History: A Celebration of African American Self-Taught Artists from the collection of Ronald and June Shelp, 1996, Baruch College, CUNY, New York, NY.
  • Masterworks by Twentieth Century African-American Artists. 17 Jan- 1 Mar, 1998, Springfield Museum of Art, Springfield, OH.
  • Southern Spirit: The Hill Collection. 21 Feb - 31 Mar 2000, Museum of Art, Tallahassee, FL.
  • Testimony: Vernacular Art of the African American South: the Ronald and June Shelp Collection. 2001, Kalamazoo Institute of Arts, Kalamazoo, MI.
  • Define Drawing: Work by Self-Taught Artists Past and Present. 14 Jul- 15 Sep 2001, Barbara Archer Gallery, Atlanta, GA.
  • Stories of Community: Self-Taught Art from the Hill Collection. 12 Aug- 30 Oct, 2004. Museum of Arts and Sciences, Macon, GA.
  • Coming Home: Self-Taught Artists, the Bible, and the American South. 19 Jun - 13 Nov. 2004, Art Museum of the University of Memphis, Memphis, TN.
  • The Souls of Black Folk: Selections of African American Folk Art from the Museum's Permanent Collection. 28 Nov. 2004- ongoing, Museum of African American Life and Culture, Dallas, TX.
  • Holy H2O: Fluid Universe. 2 Oct. 2004- 4 Sep. 2005, American Visionary Art Museum, Baltimore, MD.
  • Visual Glossolalia. 15 Jun - 15 Jul, 2005, Luise Ross Gallery, New York, NY.
  • Parallel Visions II. 5 Apr.- 26 May 2006, Galerie St. Etienne, New York, NY.
  • Recent Acquisitions. 6 Jun.- 8 Sep., 2006, Galerie St. Etienne, New York, NY.
  • Amazing Grace: Self-Taught Artists from the Mullis Collection, 29, Sep. 2007- 6 Jan. 2008, Georgia Museum of Art, University of Georgia, Athens, GA.
  • Crossroads: Spirituality in American Folk Traditions. 17 Nov, 2007- 24 Feb, 2008. Owensboro Museum of Fine Art, Owensboro, KY.
  • Approaching Abstraction. 6 Oct, 2009- 6 Sep, 2010, Museum of American Folk Art, New York, NY.
  • All Folk, 19 Aug.- 2 Oct. 2010, Barbara Archer Gallery, Atlanta, GA.
  • Naives, Seers, one Wolves, and World Savers XXIV, 2 Apr. 2011, Dean Jensen Gallery, Milwaukee, WI.
  • Outsider Visions: Self-Taught Southern Artists of the Twentieth Century. 21 Sep, 2011- 8 Jan, 2012, Boca Raton Museum of Art, Boca Raton, FL.
  • Pure Folk: Celebrating the Folk Art Society of America. 14 Sep.- 10 Nov. 2012, Barbara Archer Gallery, Atlanta, GA.
  • Voodoo Child: J.B. Murray and Mary Smith. 2013, abcd, le galerie, Paris, FR.
  • When the Stars Begin to Fall: Imagination in the American South. 27 Mar- 29 Jun, 2014, Studio Museum in Harlem, New York, NY.

permanent collections:

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  1. Russell, Charles (2001). Self-Taught Art: The Culture and Aesthetics of American Vernacular Art. Jackson, MS: University Press of Mississippi. pp. 131–4. ISBN 1-57806-380-9.
  2. University Art Museum (1987). Baking in the Sun: Visionary Images from the South. Lafayette, LA: University of Southwestern Louisiana. ISBN 9780936819037. OCLC 18909093.
  3. Untitled early 1980s. www.metmuseum.org.
  4. Untitled, John B. Murray ^ Minneapolis Institute of Art. collections.artsmia.org.
  5. Untitled | Souls Grown Deep Foundation. www.soulsgrowndeep.org.
  6. Untitled | Souls Grown Deep Foundation. www.soulsgrowndeep.org.
  7. J. B. Murray (en-US).
  8. Faces (en).
  • Judith McWillie and Grey Gundaker. No Space Hidden: The Spirit of African American Yardwork (Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 2005) pp. 39, 40, 168–171.
  • Clifton-James, Licia E. 2016. Making the connection: JB Murray and the scripts and forms of Africa. University of Missouri-Kansas City: doctoral dissertation.