18 Facts About Rosemary Hornak

Rosemary Hornak was born on February 3,1951 and is an American visual artist, known for her late twentieth-century contributions to American Folk Art; art collector; philanthropist; the sister of founding Photorealist and Hyperrealist artist, Ian Hornak; and the mother of art dealer and historian, Eric Ian Spoutz.

Rosemary Hornak had two older siblings, Michael Hornak, and Ian Hornak.

Ian Rosemary Hornak later became a prominent visual artist, one of the founders of the Photorealist and Hyperrealist movements, and a member of the New York School.

Rosemary Hornak learned to paint as a child by watching and working alongside her brother Ian at the family farm in Michigan.

Ian Rosemary Hornak later recalled during an interview with Patsy Southgate in The East Hampton Star an idyllic childhood with his sister and described her as his "best friend" in both childhood and adulthood.

Rosemary Hornak graduated from College for Creative Studies in Detroit, Michigan with a degree in Advertising Design in 1978.

Rosemary Hornak's work is somewhat reminiscent of that of her brother, Ian Hornak, but with a looser softer, freer stroke, and a spiritual, otherworldly, devotional focus that is more connected with outsider art with a folk and religious character.

Rosemary Hornak creates a world amplified with mysterious knowledge reflected in explosions of color.

Rosemary Hornak removes the mirroring and paints on the wood backing, including the frames.

Rosemary Hornak's paintings have an innocence, passion, and obsession of the folk artist.

Rosemary Hornak is nevertheless very much a folk artist, dazzled by the sheer excitement, mystery, and color of the world, and a secret knowledge of birds and flowers.

Rosemary Hornak's work combines authenticity with corn, and an invincible coupling.

Rosemary Hornak's artwork is owned by the permanent collections of the Detroit Historical Museum, and within the Ian Rosemary Hornak Papers at the Smithsonian Institution's Archives of American Art.

In 1978, Rosemary Hornak married Carl Spoutz, a Mayflower descendant, and the scion of a commercial real estate development family that was active in the Midwestern and Southwestern United States mostly during the early to middle portion of the twentieth-century.

Rosemary Hornak became the sole beneficiary of her brother, Ian Hornak's estate upon his death in 2002, in accordance with his Will.

Rosemary Hornak inherited her brother's real estate holdings in East Hampton, New York; his personal property and effects; his collection of fine art; a collection of his own artwork; and his entire library of intellectual property rights.

In 2013, Rosemary Hornak loaned a collection of her brother's artwork to Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System where it was co-curated by her son, and Stephen Bennett Phillips into a major Ian Rosemary Hornak retrospective placed on display in the Eccles Building on the occasion of Barack Obama's second Presidential Inauguration, with an accompanying monograph written by the co-curators, and published by the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve Systems.

Rosemary Hornak's collection has been the subject of numerous catalogues and monographs published by museums and American federal government organizations.