New York Times

Excerpted from The Outsider Art Fair Made ‘Big’ Again — Roberta Smith Art Review | Outsider Art Fair 2017: It is almost shocking to recall that the achievement of the great Morton Bartlett (1909-1992) was unveiled at the first 1993 fair by the dealer Marion Harris, who had acquired his work after his death. Bartlett vaulted instantly into the outsider pantheon, while disturbing the insider-outsider division. Harvard-educated, Bartlett was a freelance photographer and graphic designer who, between 1936 and 1963, devoted his leisure time to making and photographing anatomically correct half-size girls (and the occasional boy) and their wardrobes.

Marion Harris is a New York-based dealer specializing in Outsider Art.