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Books page for Herbert "Coon" Singleton ((1945 - 2007)), known for Folk art, wood carved totems, ceremonial canes, voodoos. Showing 4 books.
Herbert "Coon" Singleton PUBLICATIONS
1945 Algiers, Morocco - 2007 New Orleans, Louisiana. Known for: Folk art, wood carved totems, ceremonial canes, voodoos.
Following is an obituary of Herbert Singleton by Doug MacCash, August 2, 2007 from The Times-Picaynne newspaper, Greater New Orleans. Herbert "Coon" Singleton, internationally known folk artist, died... Read full biography
Following is an obituary of Herbert Singleton by Doug MacCash, August 2, 2007 from The Times-Picaynne newspaper, Greater New Orleans. Herbert "Coon" Singleton, internationally known folk artist, died July 25 of lung cancer at Jo Ellen Smith Convalescent Center. He was 62. Born and raised in... Read full biography
Following is an obituary of Herbert Singleton by Doug MacCash, August 2, 2007 from The Times-Picaynne newspaper, Greater New Orleans. Herbert "Coon" Singleton, internationally known folk artist, died July 25 of lung cancer at Jo Ellen Smith Convalescent Center. He was 62. Born and raised in Algiers, Singleton earned a living as a construction worker, working on structures such as the Mississippi River Bridge. In the early 1970s, he began carving the stumps of fallen trees into front-porch... Read full biography
Following is an obituary of Herbert Singleton by Doug MacCash, August 2, 2007 from The Times-Picaynne newspaper, Greater New Orleans. Herbert "Coon" Singleton, internationally known folk artist, died July 25 of lung cancer at Jo Ellen Smith Convalescent Center. He was 62. Born and raised in Algiers, Singleton earned a living as a construction worker, working on structures such as the Mississippi River Bridge. In the early 1970s, he began carving the stumps of fallen trees into front-porch totems and branches into ceremonial canes. By the 1980s, his carvings caught the attention of local art collectors as his work became more complicated and political. Using only a hammer and chisel, he transformed discarded chifforobe panels into symbolic... Read full biography
Following is an obituary of Herbert Singleton by Doug MacCash, August 2, 2007 from The Times-Picaynne newspaper, Greater New Orleans. Herbert "Coon" Singleton, internationally known folk artist, died July 25 of lung cancer at Jo Ellen Smith Convalescent Center. He was 62. Born and raised in Algiers, Singleton earned a living as a construction worker, working on structures such as the Mississippi River Bridge. In the early 1970s, he began carving the stumps of fallen trees into front-porch totems and branches into ceremonial canes. By the 1980s, his carvings caught the attention of local art collectors as his work became more complicated and political. Using only a hammer and chisel, he transformed discarded chifforobe panels into symbolic friezes, depicting biblical scenes, Voodoo icons and second-line parades. He also frequently depicted the poverty, drug abuse and viol... Read full biography
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Testimony: Vernacular Art of the African-American South: The Ronald and June Shelp Collection
2001
(Exhibition catalog)Conwill, Kinshasha, et. all192 pages (color)Cellblock Visions: Prison Art in America
1997Kornfield, Phyllis86 pages (color)Art in the American South Works from the Ogden Collection
1996Delehanty, Randolph292 pages (color)