Pictured in My Mind: Contemporary American Self-Taught Art from the Collection of Dr. Kurt Gitter and Alice Rae Yelen

Birmingham: Birmingham Museum of Art, 1995. Softcover. VG- with price sticker on front cover. Lapis blue illus. wraps with matching blue lettering; 247 pp. with 203 mostly color illustrations. "Published in conjunction with the first public exhibition of folk art from the renowned collection of Dr. Kurt Gitter and Alice Rae Yelen of New Orleans. [This book] celebrates a variety of the best works created by fifty-three major artists from many parts of the United States. Among the artists represented here and in the exhibition organized by the Birmingham Museum of Art are Raymond Coins, Sam Doyle, Howard Finster, Victor Joseph Gatto, William Lawrence Hawkins, Clementine Hunter, Charlie Lucas, Sister Gertrude Morgan, Jack Savitsky, Jon Serl, Jimmy Lee Sudduth, Rev. Johnnie Swearingen, Mose Tolliver, Bill Traylor, Philo Levi Willey, Purvis Young, and Malcah Zeldis. ... Included here are more than two hundred outstanding examples selected from the extensive Gitter-Yelen collection. Paintings, drawings, mixed-media sculptures and assemblages, and other objects created by the country's foremost self-taught artists are beautifully illustrated in color to bring to life the subtle and intricate beauty of these newly recognized works of art." (dj of hardcover) Includes descriptions of each work as well as extensive information about each artist.