We are pleased to present the first gallery exhibit anywhere for Frank Calloway.

Calloway was born sometime between 1896 and 1913 in Montgomery, Alabama.
He spent his life as a laborer, working mostly on farms, logging and building roads.
He claims to have begun drawing as a small child but he never had time to make art because
he was working all the time.

Diagnosed as schizophrenic in 1952 and institutionalized in various institutions in Alabama since then, he is currently living in the Alice M. Kidd Nursing Facility in Tuscaloosa. His imagery is primarily agrarian and depicts the Old South as he remembers it. He draws on butcher paper using crayons, pen and markers. The scrolls are either 24 or 36 inches high and Calloway makes them anywhere from 8 feet to sometimes over 50 feet in length. It is unclear if he intends to make one artwork, or is embedding many separate artworks on one sheet. When asked in a recent interview about the content of his work he simply replied "I do my best".

The American Visionary Art Museum has devoted an entire section to Calloway in their current exhibition "The Marriage of Science, Art and Philosophy". It will be on view through the summer of 2009.