Sat 11 Mar 2006
Eddie Owens Martin — Outsider Artist
Posted by Marlow Harris under Amazing Artists , Strange Places , Unusual Homes
Eddie Owens Martin, an outsider artist, died in 1986. His creation, his home, called Pasaquan in located in Buena Vista, Georgia, and is open to the public for tours.
Martin, a self-taught artist and architect who said he was guided by inner voices and by visions that popped up on the screen in the back of his head, laid out the African chieftain’s robe he wanted to be buried in and fired a bullet into his right temple. Martin, who was 77, apparently killed himself when the accumulated pains of growing old grew too great.
Artist’s bizarre home now open to the public.
After his death, his estate and its trove of hundreds of oil paintings and water colors, thousands of pages of drawings and mounds of costumes and ceremonial jewelry were in legal limbo for several years, but are now being saved and are available for viewing.
Pasaquan photos and tour hours of operation
