Flying Saucer in 1958
<p>Yoakum had no doubts as to the existence of flying saucers. In response to Whitney Halstead's question about whether he had ever flown in an airplane, Yoakum replied, "Yes, I did—but only once and that was enough! I was in Los Angeles and decided to take a plane back to Chicago, well, when we got over Arizona one of them flying saucers came down and buzzed us! Well, the pilot of that plane landed and we got off and all of us took a train. And I've not taken a plane since!"</p>
Catalogue
- Year
- 1971
- Medium
- Purple and blue felt-tip pen, pastel, colored pencil, and blue ballpoint pen on cream wove paper
- Dimensions
- 30.2 × 24.5 cm (11 15/16 × 9 11/16 in.)
- Collection
- Art Institute of Chicago
- Artist
- Joseph Yoakum
Artist
Drawing
Joseph Elmer Yoakum was an American self-taught painter. He was of African-American and possibly of Native American–descent, and was known for his landscape paintings in the outsider art-style. He was age 76 when he started to record his memories in the form of imaginary landscapes and produced over 2,000 drawings during the last decade of his life.
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1972 · Colored felt-tip pen, and black fountain pen on ivory wove paper
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1972 · Red and purple felt-tip pen and pastel on cream wove paper
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1972 · Black ballpoint pen, red felt-tip pen, and pastel on cream wove paper
This Mountain is Near Nevada Capital (Reno Nevada) (recto); Mt National Near Memphis Tennessee and Kentuckey/This mtn is Great attraction to people Driving/ passed It Route #2, to/ Jacksonville Florida (verso)
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- Joseph Yoakum
- Year
- 1971
- Medium
- Purple and blue felt-tip pen, pastel, colored pencil, and blue ballpoint pen on cream wove paper
- Dimensions
- 30.2 × 24.5 cm (11 15/16 × 9 11/16 in.)
- Watts ID
- WW-1971-041862
Source
- Collection
- Art Institute of Chicago
- Source
- aic
- Reference
- View at source
- Status
- verified