Self-Portrait195715 1/2 × 6 × 2 5/8"Paint on woodGift of Suzanne M. Richie2003.18.101544003201Joseph GarlockSculptureCopyright for this work is under review. signed top of base (front) J. GarlockBloomfieldWoodstockBloomfieldWoodstockUnited StatesUnited StatesNew JerseyNew YorkThree Dimensional WorksBloomfieldWoodstockObject information is a work in progress and may be updated with new research. Records are reviewed and revised, and the American Folk Art Museum welcomes additional information. To help improve this record, please email photoservices@folkartmuseum.orgportraitSculpture and Three Dimensional ObjectsJoseph Garlock was a Jewish immigrant from Eastern Europe. He settled on the Lower East Side of New York but moved with his growing family to New Jersey, where he operated a private bus and, later, a fruit and vegetable market in Bloomfield. For a fifteen-year period after his retirement, in 1948, Garlock created around a thousand paintings and sculptures in a variety of styles and materials. In this self-portrait made in 1957, when the artist was in his seventies, he cradles a white dinosaur against his chest. The dinosaur is a work by Garlock that was exhibited the same year in a craft and hobby show at Bamberger’s Department Store in Newark. The idiosyncratic strategy he employs in this work results in a fascinating double image, as though the artist is masking his real self with a second skin that he holds in front of his body.
Stacy C. Hollander, "Self-Portrait," exhibition label for Jubilation|Rumination: Life, Real and Imagined. Stacy C. Hollander, curator. New York: American Folk Art Museum, 2012.Object information is a work in progress and may be updated with new research. Records are reviewed and revised, and the American Folk Art Museum welcomes additional information. To help improve this record, please email photoservices@folkartmuseum.org19571957 2003 18 1 Object information is a work in progress and may be updated with new research. Records are reviewed and revised, and the American Folk Art Museum welcomes additional information. To help improve this record, please email photoservices@folkartmuseum.orgportraitSculpture and Three Dimensional ObjectsJoseph Garlock was a Jewish immigrant from Eastern Europe. He settled on the Lower East Side of New York but moved with his growing family to New Jersey, where he operated a private bus and, later, a fruit and vegetable market in Bloomfield. For a fifteen-year period after his retirement, in 1948, Garlock created around a thousand paintings and sculptures in a variety of styles and materials. In this self-portrait made in 1957, when the artist was in his seventies, he cradles a white dinosaur against his chest. The dinosaur is a work by Garlock that was exhibited the same year in a craft and hobby show at Bamberger’s Department Store in Newark. The idiosyncratic strategy he employs in this work results in a fascinating double image, as though the artist is masking his real self with a second skin that he holds in front of his body.
Stacy C. Hollander, "Self-Portrait," exhibition label for Jubilation|Rumination: Life, Real and Imagined. Stacy C. Hollander, curator. New York: American Folk Art Museum, 2012.Object information is a work in progress and may be updated with new research. Records are reviewed and revised, and the American Folk Art Museum welcomes additional information. To help improve this record, please email photoservices@folkartmuseum.org