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Outsider Americana: Painted Folk Art 45-RPM Record Box with Labor Religious Country Music and Drug Motifs

réf. 3724593Likely Indianapolis Indiana c.1980s. Painted pressed steel record recording box with hinged lid hinged drop-down front plastic handle and metal clasp lock. 8¾ x 7½ x 7½ inches. Interior with metal dividers including two that are hinged. All interior and exterior surfaces except bottom hand painted in bright colors and with applied golden metallic glitter highlights. Signed by the artist “Jim M.” on the top. Very good. This self-work was created by an Indiana union ironworker. It is a highly personal statement of with themes of labor God music motor engines fear sex and drugs. On the box’s front panel a work scene with a crane lifting an I-beam is shown with words identifying the artist by his labor union membership number and Indianapolis union affiliation: “Union 1105046 Ironworker 22#.” Vignettes on the side and rear panels show a John Deere tractor in a corn field an undersea fantasy and a “Kodack Pentech” Kodak Pentax camera with the name “Jim” on the lens. The top of the box depicts a guitar and a jet airplane and text: “$200.00 Cash! Wayne Newton Roy Clark Music 24hr. Sunnydale Travle sic American Trans Air Brenson sic.” This likely refers to Branson Missouri where Country Music musician Roy Clark opened a theater in 1983 for himself and the likes of Wayne Newton to perform. On the base of the guitar the artist signed his work “Jim M.” The inside of the box’s cover shows a night scene along interstate highway I-70. This highway passes through Indianapolis and intersects in Missouri with the main road leading south to Branson. Based on this reference to I-70 and to the reference to Ironworkers Union Local 22 which is based in Indianapolis Indiana Jim likely lived and worked nearby. Another interior scene shows a go-kart racing under a moon-lit sky. The box’s interior has themes of religious piety sex alcohol and drugs. An image of a sparkling golden cross is surrounded by hell-fires and burning and by a large marijuana or cannabis leaf. Painted words read “Christ God Jesus Jim Church Fear Sex Pot Booze Canibiss sic” Jim’s and Jesus’ names intersect and share the letter “J.” An intriguing self-work an autobiographical folk art box a painted “self-portrait” of an imaginative Midwestern ironworker. unknown

Ian Brabner, Rare Americana (ABAA) · États-Unis650,00 $US≈ 580,72 €

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