Leo Sewell is one of America’s foremost Visionary artists, known for his naturalist creations often in the form of animals, birds, or human figures created out of found objects. Born in Annapolis, Maryland, he moved to Philadelphia in 1974 where he found the materials he liked to work in were in bountiful supply. Sewell earned a B.A. in Business and an M.A. in Art History at the University of Delaware, where he wrote his Master’s thesis on the use of the Found Object in Dada and Surrealism. It is estimated that Sewell has produced over 4,000 works over the last 50 years which have been featured on children’s television shows and are in the collections of 23 Ripley’s Believe it or Not! Museums worldwide as well as Museums such as the American Visionary Art Museum, the Chicago Children’s Museum, the Garbage Museum, and the Shonandai Cultural Center in Japan. His work is also in many corporate collections and public institutions including the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency.
Leo Sewell is one of America’s foremost Visionary artists, known for his naturalist creations often in the form of animals, birds, or human figures created out of found objects. Born in Annapolis, Maryland, he moved to Philadelphia in 1974 where he found the materials he liked to work in were in bountiful supply. Sewell earned a B.A. in Business and an M.A. in Art History at the University of Delaware, where he wrote his Master’s thesis on the use of the Found Object in Dada and Surrealism. It is estimated that Sewell has produced over 4,000 works over the last 50 years which have been featured on children’s television shows and are in the collections of 23 Ripley’s Believe it or Not! Museums worldwide as well as Museums such as the American Visionary Art Museum, the Chicago Children’s Museum, the Garbage Museum, and the Shonandai Cultural Center in Japan. His work is also in many corporate collections and public institutions including the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency.
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