William Doriani Loved Flag Day (opens in new tab)

In the 1930s Sidney Janis was a garmento and an art collector who joined the junior committee of The Museum of Modern Art, which actually organized and sponsored shows, including one of his own collection, which the museum people did feel weird about, so he agreed to take his name off it. And there was a show of what Janis called Primitive Art, because, as the Modernist thinking of the time went, self-taught painters had access to individualist intuition and aesthetic purity untainted by Hist...