No Rhyme or Reason: The Whimsicality of Folk Art Environments

When Loy Bowlin died in 1995, the small house where he had lived in McComb,Mississippi was saved from demolition by an art collector, systematically dismantledpiece-by-piece, and then later acquired by the Kohler Foundation. Though relativelybanal on its exterior, the specialness of the house’s interior was betrayed by its sparklingexterior trim—Bowlin had spent the last two decades of his life bedazzling theinterior of the house (decoration that eventually leaked onto the exterior facade),filling every possible surface with bold display.

Volume Editors
Robert Corser & Sharon Haar

ISBN
978-1-944214-03-6