John Devlin's second act, from outsider to world star
John Devlin’s second act, from outsider to world star The local artist is acclaimed for drawing utopia, but can’t imagine a better city than this one. John Devlin doesn’t draw for other people. He doesn’t draw for museums or galleries (even though, right now, his work is hanging in New York’s American Folk Art Museum, Berlin’s Galerie Parterre Berlin and the Art Gallery of Nova Scotia). He doesn’t even do it for the agents in London and Paris who represent his work. Nope, the self-taught, “outsider artist” (a title ...