Background
Eugene Andolsek was born in Adrian, West Virginia, United States of America. He grew up with his mother"s homemade quilts and crochet pieces which became a principal influence for his later drawings.
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He is considered an Outsider artist. In 1953 Andolsek became a stenographer for the Rock Island Railroad. After being made redundant, Andolsek developed an irreversible eye disorder and became almost blind, provoking him to consider suicide.
As a result of the move Andolsek"s drawings were shown to an administrator at Pittsburgh"s Andy Warhol Museum, who in turn showed them to Brooke Davis Anderson of the American Folk Art Museum.
Anderson included some of the work in a group show at AFAM called "Obsessive Drawing" in 2005. Andolsek"s first solo show was in March 2006 at American Primitive Gallery.
He had another exhibition there in 2008, before he died of pneumonia and sepsis on November 17th. of that year.
