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    Pappy Kitchens and the Saga of Red Eye the Rooster
    Pappy Kitchens and the Saga of Red Eye the Rooster
    Pappy Kitchens and the Saga of Red Eye the Rooster
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    Pappy Kitchens and the Saga of Red Eye the Rooster

    By William Dunlap and Jane Livingston

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    O. W. “Pappy” Kitchens (1901–1986) was born in Crystal Springs, Mississippi, and began painting at age sixty-seven. His self-taught, narrative, visual art springs directly from the oral tradition of parable and storytelling with which he grew up. A self-declared folk artist, Kitchens claimed, “I paint about folks, what folks see and what folks do.”

    His magnum opus, The Saga of Red Eye the Rooster, was painted between 1973 and 1976 and presents a homespun Pilgrim’s Progress in the form of a beast fable. Kitchens’s most ambitious allegorical work, this fable consists of sixty panels, each one measuring fifteen inches square, composed of mixed materials on paper, and executed in three groups of twenty. Kitchens follows Red Eye from foundling to funeral, exploring the life of this extraordinary bird. Red Eye’s quasi-human behavior inevitably maneuvers him into conflicts with antagonists of all sorts. He encounters violence, avarice, lust, greed, and most of the other seven deadly sins, dispatching them in heroic fashion until he finally succumbs to his own fatal flaw.

    In addition to The Saga of Red Eye the Rooster, the volume features personal photos of Kitchens as well as additional works by the artist. Written by distinguished artist and Kitchens’s once son-in-law William Dunlap, with an introduction by renowned curator Jane Livingston, Pappy Kitchens and the Saga of Red Eye the Rooster brings much-needed exposure to the life and work of a key Mississippi figure.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherUniversity Press of Mississippi
    Release dateJul 29, 2019
    ISBN9781496824639
    Pappy Kitchens and the Saga of Red Eye the Rooster
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    William Dunlap

    William Dunlap is a distinguished American artist, arts commentator, and writer. His paintings, sculpture, and constructions are included in important public and private collections including the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the National Gallery of Art, and The Ogden Museum of Southern Art. Dunlap is the author of numerous publications including Short Mean Fiction: Words and Pictures and Dunlap, the latter published by University Press of Mississippi. www.williamdunlap.com

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      Pappy Kitchens and the Saga of Red Eye the Rooster - William Dunlap

      PAPPY KITCHENS

      and the

      SAGA OF RED EYE

      THE ROOSTER

      PAPPY KITCHENS

      and the

      SAGA OF RED EYE

      THE ROOSTER

      WILLIAM DUNLAP With an introduction by JANE LIVINGSTON

      University Press of Mississippi / Jackson

      The University Press of Mississippi is the scholarly publishing agency of the Mississippi Institutions of Higher Learning: Alcorn State University, Delta State University, Jackson State University, Mississippi State University, Mississippi University for Women, Mississippi Valley State University, University of Mississippi, and University of Southern Mississippi.

      www.upress.state.ms.us

      The University Press of Mississippi is a member of the Association of University Presses.

      Photographs courtesy of William Dunlap unless otherwise noted.

      Copyright © 2019 by William Dunlap

      All rights reserved

      Printed in China

      First printing 2019

      ∞

      Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

      Names: Dunlap, William, 1944– author. | Livingston, Jane, author of introduction.

      Title: Pappy Kitchens and the Saga of Red Eye the Rooster / William Dunlap ; with an introduction by Jane Livingston.

      Description: Jackson : University Press of Mississippi, [2019] |

      Identifiers: LCCN 2018059604 (print) | LCCN 2019000210 (ebook) | ISBN 9781496824639 (epub single) | ISBN 9781496824646 (epub institutional) | ISBN 9781496824653 (pdf single) | ISBN 9781496824660 (pdf institutional) | ISBN 9781496809179 (cloth : alk. paper)

      Subjects: LCSH: Kitchens, Pappy, 1901–1986. Saga of Red Eye the Rooster. | Kitchens, Pappy, 1901–1986—Criticism and interpretation. | Outsider art—Mississippi. | LCGFT: Illustrated works.

      Classification: LCC N6537.K536 (ebook) | LCC N6537.K536 A73 2019 (print) | DDC 709.762—dc23

      LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2018059604

      British Library Cataloging-in-Publication Data available

      MAJOR FUNDING FOR PUBLICATION PROVIDED BY

      Ruff and Susan Fant

      ADDITIONAL FUNDING PROVIDED BY

      Luther H. Hodges Jr.

      Marla and Lowry Lomax, Oxford, Mississippi

      Schley Family Foundation

      Van Devender Family Foundation

      CONTENTS

      Preface

      Introduction by Jane Livingston

      The Saga of Red Eye the Rooster

      Panels 1–20

      Panels 21–40

      Panels 41–60

      Conclusion

      Acknowledgments

      Portrait of O. W. Pappy Kitchens.

      PREFACE

      Oscar William (O. W.) Pappy Kitchens was born in 1901 in Copiah County, Mississippi, and died on October 30, 1986, in Jackson.

      He first began to paint in his late sixties and a lifelong

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