http://artgoodhitlerbad.com/pretty-pictures/behold-beauparlant/ Outsider, Raw, and Found Art Thu, 27 Oct 2011 22:53:18 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 http://artgoodhitlerbad.com/pretty-pictures/behold-beauparlant/comment-page-1/#comment-432 gregg fledderman/lauren davies Thu, 13 Jan 2011 03:14:13 +0000 http://artgoodhitlerbad.com/pretty-pictures/behold-beauparlant/#comment-432 Hard to know where to start... we are both artists, who bought our house in SF from Albert in 1995. Its ironic that now, as we are about to sell the house, we are finally checking him out. Albert bought the house in 1966, apparently having just retired from the Merchant Marines; he reportedly had come from Chicago where (we were told), he had something of a gun museum....which he installed in what is now our living room. This certainly would explain how his artwork ended up in SF, although from what we understand, the gun museum and his late 60's Ford Mustang (think: "Bullitt" car) were his chief interests. Albert was more than just a little paranoid: the house was filled with evidence of security "peepers" in the interior doors of the house, double bolted interior and closet doors, motion detectors, a two-way mirror and dymo labels on each thing he added to the house (the label noting the date of installation). One police Sgt. we once knew recounted phone calls Albert had made to the local precinct station concerning Hindu women in the house/dancing around his bed. Heresay has it that Albert's last stand in SF involved his crashing the Mustang (which he had named "Nenette") into the blocked off part of Wawona St. (near 30th Avenue); Albert had apparently fallen asleep at the wheel.... but when the cops found a 9mm pistol on him, and with his documented history of delusions, he was eventually shipped off to a facility in Connecticut (which is where he was living in 1995). Hard to know where to start… we are both artists, who bought our house in SF from Albert in 1995. Its ironic that now, as we are about to sell the house, we are finally checking him out. Albert bought the house in 1966, apparently having just retired from the Merchant Marines; he reportedly had come from Chicago where (we were told), he had something of a gun museum….which he installed in what is now our living room. This certainly would explain how his artwork ended up in SF, although from what we understand, the gun museum and his late 60′s Ford Mustang (think: “Bullitt” car) were his chief interests. Albert was more than just a little paranoid: the house was filled with evidence of security “peepers” in the interior doors of the house, double bolted interior and closet doors, motion detectors, a two-way mirror and dymo labels on each thing he added to the house (the label noting the date of installation). One police Sgt. we once knew recounted phone calls Albert had made to the local precinct station concerning Hindu women in the house/dancing around his bed. Heresay has it that Albert’s last stand in SF involved his crashing the Mustang (which he had named “Nenette”) into the blocked off part of Wawona St. (near 30th Avenue); Albert had apparently fallen asleep at the wheel…. but when the cops found a 9mm pistol on him, and with his documented history of delusions, he was eventually shipped off to a facility in Connecticut (which is where he was living in 1995).

]]> http://artgoodhitlerbad.com/pretty-pictures/behold-beauparlant/comment-page-1/#comment-32 The Weight Room Wed, 26 Sep 2007 19:32:52 +0000 http://artgoodhitlerbad.com/pretty-pictures/behold-beauparlant/#comment-32 [...] While an intriguing glimpse into another of Beauparlant’s environment, the Magazine Shop drawing offers much more in the way of composition and detail. [...] [...] While an intriguing glimpse into another of Beauparlant’s environment, the Magazine Shop drawing offers much more in the way of composition and detail. [...]

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