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Jessie Aaron PUBLICATIONS
1887 Lake City, Florida - 1979 Gainsville, Florida. Known for: Naive wood carving.
Born in Lake City, Florida, Jessie Aaron was a folk art wood carver whose subjects were animals, people and faces. He lived his entire life in Florida, primarily in Gainsville. Of mixed white, black,... Read full biography
Born in Lake City, Florida, Jessie Aaron was a folk art wood carver whose subjects were animals, people and faces. He lived his entire life in Florida, primarily in Gainsville. Of mixed white, black, and Seminole Indian ancestry, he was one of eleven children. He left school before finishing the... Read full biography
Born in Lake City, Florida, Jessie Aaron was a folk art wood carver whose subjects were animals, people and faces. He lived his entire life in Florida, primarily in Gainsville. Of mixed white, black, and Seminole Indian ancestry, he was one of eleven children. He left school before finishing the first grade to support his family. He worked as farm laborer, baker and cook in the Hotel Thomas in Gainesville from 1933 to 1937 and then worked in hospitals, university fraternities and for the... Read full biography
Born in Lake City, Florida, Jessie Aaron was a folk art wood carver whose subjects were animals, people and faces. He lived his entire life in Florida, primarily in Gainsville. Of mixed white, black, and Seminole Indian ancestry, he was one of eleven children. He left school before finishing the first grade to support his family. He worked as farm laborer, baker and cook in the Hotel Thomas in Gainesville from 1933 to 1937 and then worked in hospitals, university fraternities and for the Seaboard System Railroad. In his middle 70s, he was forced to sell his nursery business to finance his wife's cataract surgery. He attributes his decade-long wood carving career to the answer he got to a prayer for guidance. ". the Spirit woke me up and... Read full biography
Born in Lake City, Florida, Jessie Aaron was a folk art wood carver whose subjects were animals, people and faces. He lived his entire life in Florida, primarily in Gainsville. Of mixed white, black, and Seminole Indian ancestry, he was one of eleven children. He left school before finishing the first grade to support his family. He worked as farm laborer, baker and cook in the Hotel Thomas in Gainesville from 1933 to 1937 and then worked in hospitals, university fraternities and for the Seaboard System Railroad. In his middle 70s, he was forced to sell his nursery business to finance his wife's cataract surgery. He attributes his decade-long wood carving career to the answer he got to a prayer for guidance. ". the Spirit woke me up and said, 'Carve Wood.' . His technique was rough and simple. He roughed out the forms with a chain saw and finished with chisels, knives and... Read full biography
Jessie Aaron - Artist Info
About Jessie Aaron: Books
Books & Publications (6)
Publications based on askART research. List may not be comprehensive.
Davenport's Art Reference: The Gold Edition
2005Davenport, Ray2,421 pagesMuseum of American Folk Art Encyclopedia of 20th Century Folk Art and Artists
1990Rosenak, Chuck and Jan416 pages (color)American Folk Art of the Twentieth Century
1983Johnson, Jay; William Ketchum342 pages (color)Black Folk Art in America, 1930-1980 (Corcoran Gallery of Art)
1982
(Exhibition catalog)Livingston, Jane/J Beardsley186 pages (color)Florida Sculptors and Their Work 1880-2020
0Pollack, Deborah184 pages (color)