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person1900–1937

Herbert Crowley

Disciplines:
art
comics
jungian psychology/jungian
spirituality/visionary

Summary

British artist and cartoonist who created the comic strip Wiggle Much (1910–1912) and was associated with the Provincetown Players — whose visionary and highly idiosyncratic art has connections to the Jungian artistic tradition through his relationship with Alice Lewisohn.

Core Contribution

Represents the forgotten visionary artist who worked in the liminal zone between commercial illustration and high art — Crowley's imagery has an oneiric, archetypal quality that connects it to the visionary tradition that Jungian art psychology studies.

Historical Influences

Symbolism Art Nouveau

Intellectual Lineage

England New York Switzerland

Contemporaries & Peers

Alice Lewisohn Provincetown Players

Minds Influenced

Outsider visionary artJungian tradition

Intellectual Posterity

Wiggle Much

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