Joseph Yoakum: What I Saw - Hardcover whimsical gift and the MoMA Design Store

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a self-taught painter who turned to art after retiring as a customs inspector at the age of forty-nine

By Jodi Hauptman

Published in conjunction with the first solo exhibition of the artist’s work at a museum in the United States in twenty-five years

Packaged in a decorative tin

Joseph Yoakum: What I Saw - Hardcover whimsical gift and the MoMA Design StoreJoseph Elmer Yoakum (18901972) started drawing late in life and produced some 2,000 works on paper, primarily landscapes and select portraits, over just ten years. This beautifully illustrated monograph offers the most comprehensive study of the artists work, illuminating his vivid and imaginative world of drawings and giving definition and dimension to his remarkable life. It charts his rise from an unknown veteran to an untrained artist with work