Art Fairs

Franchise of the Disenfranchised

“He’s overpriced because he’s dead,” repeated a taut-faced woman to her husband. The couple was examining an enamel collage of a rhinoceros by William Hawkins, a Kentucky-born artist who could barely read or write, held an assortment of unskilled jobs, and claimed to have fathered some 20 children.

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