Modern Primitives and Modernist Art in America

The first introduction of this term was actually in 19 37, which was with the exhibition by william edmonson. Alfred barr junior was the first director of moma, and he was interested in kind of non demically trained artists that were feeding into modernism. It may have been somehow more palatable for white audiences to introduce an african american artist that was self taught instead of academically trained ad if that would just be less restrictive.