Last time on the Outsider Art Podcast we left Martín Ramírez in 1948, having met Tarmo Pasto, the main actor in his discovery narrative. Pasto would go on to play one of the major roles in the last part of Ramírez’s life as an artist and be the primary source of his story and guardian and promoter of his work as it made it’s way firstly into minor exhibitions and then, via Jim Nutt and Phyllis Kind, into the commercial art world.
Martín Ramírez on Artsy - https://www.artsy.net/artist/martin-ramirez
Cover image - Martín Ramírez - Untitled (Train and Tunnel) - C.1950
Reading List
Martín Ramírez - Framing his life and art. Victor M. Espinosa. ISBN 978-1-4773-0775-5
Framing Martín Ramírez. Victor M. Espinosa. Dissertation (2012) - UMI Number: 3527726
Martín Ramírez. Brook Davis Anderson. ISBN-13: 978-0-9778028-1-4
Formulaic Narrative in Outsider Art: The containment of Martín Ramírez and the classification of Thornton Dial. Cara Zimmerman Campbell. Thesis (2009) - UMI Number: 1469486
Outsider Art. Visionary Worlds and Trauma. Daniel Wojcik. ISBN 9781496808066
Groundwaters. A Century of Art by Self Taught and Outsider Artists. Charles Russell. ISBN 978-3-7913-4490-4