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Steve Plattner photos of visionary artists and their environments.
Art Greg CookFebruary 18, 2025 0

Steve Plattner’s Photos Of Visionary Art Environments

Cincinnati photographer Steve Plattner is showing his portraits of visionary artists and their environments in the exhibition “Persistence of Vision” at the Outsider Art Museum & Gallery in Louisville from…Continue Reading →

Mary Nohl (clockwise from top left), Joe Minter, Bernard "Blackie" Langlais, Vollis Simpson, and Prophet Isaiah Robertson. (©Greg Cook photo)
Art Greg CookOctober 10, 2024 0

Backyard Wonderlands: Photo Exhibit Documents People Who Transform Their Homes Into Visionary And Folk Art Worlds

For a decade, Greg Cook has been making pilgrimages to visionary art sites, folk art environments, and “yard shows” from Maine to Georgia to Louisiana to Minnesota—to photograph these places…Continue Reading →

Howard Finster. Included in the exhibition "Behind the Brain of a Genius: Finster's Cut-Outs, Dimensions and Molds from the Paradise Garden Archive."
Art Greg CookMarch 15, 2024 0

To Spread God’s Word, Howard Finster Created 46,991 Artworks. New Exhibit Reveals Method To His Productivity.

As the story goes, in 1976, when Howard Finster was 60, the Baptist preacher was painting a bicycle when he got paint on his hand and fell into a vision.…Continue Reading →

Thomas Saltsman's Halloween forest troll on Pleasant Street, Marblehead, Oct. 31, 2023. (©Greg Cook photo)
Art Greg CookNovember 1, 2023 0

Giant Troll Takes Over Thomas Saltsman’s Marblehead Driveway

Architect Thomas Saltsman, of the Boston firm SaltsmanBrenzel, has become a sensation for the giant installations that have taken over his Marblehead driveway each Halloween for the past several years.…Continue Reading →

Vollis Simpson Whirligig Park & Museum, Wilson, North Carolina, June 19, 2019. (Greg Cook)
Wonderlands Greg CookSeptember 5, 2023Sticky 0

Wonderlands: Visionary And Folk Art Sites Across The U.S.

For several years now, I’ve been making pilgrimages to visionary sites across the United States. Below are a selection of photos from those trips. I’ll add more as I go.…Continue Reading →

Ted Degener (American, b. 1948). Tyree Guyton on the steps of one of the homes included in The Heidelberg Project in Detroit, Michigan, 1997. Archival pigment print. Photo courtesy Ted Degener
Art Greg CookAugust 12, 2023 0

Ted Degener Has Spent 50 Years Photographing Creators Of Visionary Art Environments

For more than five decades, Ted Degener—who lives near Cornish, New Hampshire—has driven across the United States photographing more than 400 visionary art environments and their creators.  His photos and…Continue Reading →

Martin Prekop's Mirror House, Pittsburgh. (Sotheby's International Realty)
Art Greg CookJune 16, 2023 0

Martin Prekop’s Mirror House Is For Sale

The problem was the view. “If you looked out the bathroom window, you looked onto a brick wall,” the artist Martin Prekop tells me. “There was a beautiful wood behind…Continue Reading →

Old Sturbridge Village, Oct. 30, 2022. (© Greg Cook photo)
History Greg CookDecember 7, 2022 0

At Old Sturbridge Village, 1830s America Comes Alive With Chickens, Sheep, Cows, Pigs

Part of the fun of an old timey living-history museum like Old Sturbridge Village is the feeling that you’ve stepped off a time machine into the past—in this case, peacetime…Continue Reading →

Beauport Sleeper-McCann House in Gloucester: Stair Hall or Central Hall on ground floor. (©Greg Cook photo 2022)
Art Greg CookAugust 2, 2022 0

Beauport: Henry Sleeper’s Dream House Of Americana That Grew And Grew

“Mrs. Henry D. Sleeper of Beacon St. is building a beautiful summer cottage in Gloucester, near the site of the Colonial Arms hotel, which was burned during the late fall.…Continue Reading →

Courage boulder in Gloucester's Dogtown woods, Nov. 6, 2021. (©Greg Cook photo)
Nature Greg CookNovember 7, 2021 0

The Curious, Edifying Boulders At The Heart Of Gloucester’s Dogtown Woods

In the woods at the heart of Gloucester lies a ghost town, the remnants of an abandoned English colonial settlement today known as Dogtown. There are a number of ways to…Continue Reading →

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