January 21, 2008 - Antiques And The Arts Weekly

  • The Anthony Petullo Collection Of Self -Taught & Outsider Art
    January 21, 2008

    A consummate collector, Anthony Petullo often takes time out of his busy schedule to contemplate the trove of artwork that paints the walls of his home, offices and the nonprofit learning center where he houses his collection. And, like the artists of which he is so enamored, one recurring theme perpetually defines Petullo⁳ art experience; the similarities he notes between himself and the outsider and self-taught artists †and the differences they mutually share with the academic art world. ⁉ am a lot like them,†exclaims Petullo with regard to his favorite artists. In just three short years, after executing what the collector considers his first ⁴rue†art acquisition, Petullo had amassed more than 150 paintings by the most recognized and desirable outsider, self-taught, Gugging, nonacademic and naïve artists to have worked in the Twentieth Century. His collection had become the subject of a single-owner exhibition that toured the country, making stops at six different major museums, and he has since loaned works of art to numerous other shows and exhibitions as well. Today, the author, co-author or merely the subject of three books, one that has sold out twice, the collector is taking time to breathe it all in.



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