Are you an outsider? Do you stand at the edge of an interesting, complex, and wondrous community, desperate for a way in? Do you have a dream job title that you want emphatically to be able to print on your business card? Me, too. And as it turns out, it was true for post-impressionist painter Henri Rousseau as well.
Henri Rousseau worked as a Parisian customs officer in the mid to late 1890s until he retired. Then, with no training and no connections to the art world, he embarked on a career...