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1911 Sumter, South Carolina - 1990 Willard, New York. Known for: Naive figure-genre-outsider art.
The following information is from:. http://www.inezwalker.com/. Inez Nathaniel Walker was born into poverty in Sumter, South Carolina in 1911, Inez was orphaned at an early age. She was married when... Read full biography
The following information is from:. http://www.inezwalker.com/. Inez Nathaniel Walker was born into poverty in Sumter, South Carolina in 1911, Inez was orphaned at an early age. She was married when only 16 years old and quickly had four children. She then moved to Philadelphia to get away from the... Read full biography
The following information is from:. http://www.inezwalker.com/. Inez Nathaniel Walker was born into poverty in Sumter, South Carolina in 1911, Inez was orphaned at an early age. She was married when only 16 years old and quickly had four children. She then moved to Philadelphia to get away from the grueling farm work. "Got tired of working so hard on the farm, weeding and hoeing," she told a reporter for New York State's "Correctional Services News" in 1978. "The muck would eat you up.". For... Read full biography
The following information is from:. http://www.inezwalker.com/. Inez Nathaniel Walker was born into poverty in Sumter, South Carolina in 1911, Inez was orphaned at an early age. She was married when only 16 years old and quickly had four children. She then moved to Philadelphia to get away from the grueling farm work. "Got tired of working so hard on the farm, weeding and hoeing," she told a reporter for New York State's "Correctional Services News" in 1978. "The muck would eat you up.". For awhile Inez worked at a pickle plant, but a strike brought that to an end. In 1949 she moved to Port Byron in New York State and went back to migrant farm work but at least the "muck" of South Carolina was missing. She lived and worked in several other... Read full biography
The following information is from:. http://www.inezwalker.com/. Inez Nathaniel Walker was born into poverty in Sumter, South Carolina in 1911, Inez was orphaned at an early age. She was married when only 16 years old and quickly had four children. She then moved to Philadelphia to get away from the grueling farm work. "Got tired of working so hard on the farm, weeding and hoeing," she told a reporter for New York State's "Correctional Services News" in 1978. "The muck would eat you up.". For awhile Inez worked at a pickle plant, but a strike brought that to an end. In 1949 she moved to Port Byron in New York State and went back to migrant farm work but at least the "muck" of South Carolina was missing. She lived and worked in several other places in New York, including Clyde, Savannah and Geneva. Inez was imprisoned in the early 1970s for killing a man who had... Read full biography
Inez Nathaniel Walker - Artist Info
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Keywords (19)
Art Method
- •Easel Painting
Art Media
Art Style
Art Subject
- •Figure, Figurative Humans
- •Folk Art, Folk Lore
- •Genre, Human Activity, Daily Life
- •Portraits, Portraiture
Chronology
- •Early 20th Century Before 1950
- •Late 20th Century After 1950
Added Description
- •Figure Specialty
- •Genre Specialty
- •Outsider Art
Ethnicity of Artist
- •Black, African-American and/or Caribbean
Exhibition of Special Group
- •Outsider Art Fair, New York City