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Joseph E. Yoakum
American, 1889–1972
Joseph E. Yoakum was an American artist. 6 works are cataloged here, principally at Museum of Modern Art. Joseph E. Yoakum was born in Ash Grove.
Joseph Elmer Yoakum was an American self-taught painter. He was of African-American and possibly of Native American–descent, and was known for his landscape paintings in the outsider art-style. He was age 76 when he started to record his memories in the form of imaginary landscapes and produced over 2,000 drawings during the last decade of his life.
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