Alfred McMoore was born in northeastern Ohio in 1950 and has spent most of his life in mental institutions and now lives in a group home. He works with pencils or crayons on rolls of paper five feet tall and from four to 150 feet long. He has been working on one major project for decades, a "mental movie" drawn on giant rolls of paper in small sections one at a time, featuring exploits of various characters he has invented and the people he lives with at the group home. Alfred never sees the whole picture because his room is too small. When he completes a section he rolls out fresh paper, never needing to view the last scene ... the completed work unfolds in his head. Alfred draws inspiration from funerals, which he loves to attend. He was included in the exhibition "Wind in My Hair" at the American Visionary Art Museum in 1996.
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Deputy Sheriff pencil on paper under Plexiglas 49 x 62 $400 From the collection of Herbert Hemphill |
