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1924 Egypt, Kentucky - 1981 Lexington, Kentucky. Known for: Naive style animal, still life and figure painting, whimsy, mysticism.
HENRY LAWRENCE FAULKNER (1894–1983). Born in rural Kentucky, HenryLawrence Faulkner overcame an orphaned childhood to lead a vivid bohemian lifestyle as an artist of some renown. His early artistic... Read full biography
HENRY LAWRENCE FAULKNER (1894–1983). Born in rural Kentucky, HenryLawrence Faulkner overcame an orphaned childhood to lead a vivid bohemian lifestyle as an artist of some renown. His early artistic promise was rewarded with a scholarship to the Louisville School of Art; he later studied with... Read full biography
HENRY LAWRENCE FAULKNER (1894–1983). Born in rural Kentucky, HenryLawrence Faulkner overcame an orphaned childhood to lead a vivid bohemian lifestyle as an artist of some renown. His early artistic promise was rewarded with a scholarship to the Louisville School of Art; he later studied with Millard Sheets, Margaret Montgomery, and Pierre Sicard at the Los Angeles County Art Institute. In 1942, he embarked on a lengthy period of travel that took him around the country and included a brief... Read full biography
HENRY LAWRENCE FAULKNER (1894–1983). Born in rural Kentucky, HenryLawrence Faulkner overcame an orphaned childhood to lead a vivid bohemian lifestyle as an artist of some renown. His early artistic promise was rewarded with a scholarship to the Louisville School of Art; he later studied with Millard Sheets, Margaret Montgomery, and Pierre Sicard at the Los Angeles County Art Institute. In 1942, he embarked on a lengthy period of travel that took him around the country and included a brief commitment to a Washington, D.C. psychiatric facility; while hospitalized, he befriended fellow patient and poet Ezra Pound. The artist settled in Lexington, Kentucky in 1956 in order to pursue his artistic and poetic interests. Working from there, he... Read full biography
HENRY LAWRENCE FAULKNER (1894–1983). Born in rural Kentucky, HenryLawrence Faulkner overcame an orphaned childhood to lead a vivid bohemian lifestyle as an artist of some renown. His early artistic promise was rewarded with a scholarship to the Louisville School of Art; he later studied with Millard Sheets, Margaret Montgomery, and Pierre Sicard at the Los Angeles County Art Institute. In 1942, he embarked on a lengthy period of travel that took him around the country and included a brief commitment to a Washington, D.C. psychiatric facility; while hospitalized, he befriended fellow patient and poet Ezra Pound. The artist settled in Lexington, Kentucky in 1956 in order to pursue his artistic and poetic interests. Working from there, he created still life paintings, as well as animal and figural works, usually executed in a highly keyed palette with a whimsical sensi... Read full biography
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Keywords (24)
Art Method
- •Easel Painting
Art Media
Art Style
- •Modernist, Modernism (Partially Abstract, Leading Edge)
- •Sophisticated Naive, Primitive
Art Subject
- •Animals, Mammals
- •Architecture Trained: Design and Drawing
- •Figure, Figurative Humans
- •Horses: Equestrian Genre, in Landscape and/or Portraits
- •Humor, Whimsy
- •Portraits, Portraiture
- •Religion, Mysticism, Spirituality
- •Still Life
- •Townscape, Village Scenes
Geography/Places Lived and/or Worked
- •Italy
Art Teacher
- •Margaret Montgomery
- •Millard Sheets
- •Pierre Sicard
Art School
- •Louisville School of Art, (Art Center School), Student
Chronology
- •Early 20th Century Before 1950
- •Late 20th Century After 1950
Added Description
- •Animal Specialty
- •Art Educator:Teaching, Scholarship, Workshops and/or Writing