Alabama. Born 1951
Large scale abstract metal sculpture and painting
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1926 Alabama - 2014 Pensacola, Florida. Known for: Naive, folk art style painting, political, racial themes.
Born on Christmas Day, 1926, Bernice Sims lived all her life in rural and small town southern Alabama. She said she did not notice the racial divisions in the American South when she was a child,... Read full biography
Born on Christmas Day, 1926, Bernice Sims lived all her life in rural and small town southern Alabama. She said she did not notice the racial divisions in the American South when she was a child, because “everybody was just poor.” As she grew up though, her eyes were opened and she became a witness... Read full biography
Born on Christmas Day, 1926, Bernice Sims lived all her life in rural and small town southern Alabama. She said she did not notice the racial divisions in the American South when she was a child, because “everybody was just poor.” As she grew up though, her eyes were opened and she became a witness to social injustice and a participant in the Civil Rights Movement of the 1960’s. Although she had an early interest in painting, there was no time for it until relatively late in life. After years... Read full biography
Born on Christmas Day, 1926, Bernice Sims lived all her life in rural and small town southern Alabama. She said she did not notice the racial divisions in the American South when she was a child, because “everybody was just poor.” As she grew up though, her eyes were opened and she became a witness to social injustice and a participant in the Civil Rights Movement of the 1960’s. Although she had an early interest in painting, there was no time for it until relatively late in life. After years of working hard to earn a living and single-handedly raising her six children, Sims resolved to continue her education at the local community college. She began to paint & found her own style with the encouragement of an art instructor at the school.... Read full biography
Born on Christmas Day, 1926, Bernice Sims lived all her life in rural and small town southern Alabama. She said she did not notice the racial divisions in the American South when she was a child, because “everybody was just poor.” As she grew up though, her eyes were opened and she became a witness to social injustice and a participant in the Civil Rights Movement of the 1960’s. Although she had an early interest in painting, there was no time for it until relatively late in life. After years of working hard to earn a living and single-handedly raising her six children, Sims resolved to continue her education at the local community college. She began to paint & found her own style with the encouragement of an art instructor at the school. Her brightly colored paintings illustrate her memories, from scenes of children playing with homemade toys, to scenes of demonstrators being... Read full biography
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Louisiana / Morocco. 1945 - 2007
Folk art, wood carved totems, ceremonial canes, voodoos
Illinois. 1894 - 1989
Naive religio-historical carvings
North Carolina. 1904 - 1998
Naive sculpture
Florida, Ohio. 1908 - 1986
Naive figure painting
California. Born 1924
Naive obsessive male portraits, fantasy faces, animals, people
Georgia, Ohio. 1938 - 1997
Woodcarver-folk art, religious, collaborative art
Georgia. Born 1934
Naive religious activities
Georgia. 1900 - 1982
Collage, assemblages and colored pencil images of dreams, animals, landscape
West Virginia. 1901 - 1995
Naive sculpture, drawing
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South Carolina. 1906 - 1985
Naive style figure, portrait and genre regionalist painting
Mississippi. 1911 - 1997
Naive sculptor
Kentucky. 1906 - 1990
Folk art, naive painting and sculpture, bird and birdhouse sculpture, airplanes
New York, Michigan / Israel. Born 1931
Naive religio-historical views, folk art painting
Louisiana. 1898 - 1997
Folk art sculpture, painting, yard art
Nebraska, Arizona / Italy. 1913 - 2002
Naive figure and genre painting
Kentucky. 1931 - 2012
Folk art
Mississippi. 1922 - 2003
Folk carver-fanciful images, religion
North Carolina. 1931 - 1999
Naive high colored yard-art sculpture
United States. 1919 - 2002
Pottery and clay art using pit-fire method
Illinois, Alabama. 1901 - 1990
Naive style genre, animal and portrait painting, totemic sculpture
Louisiana, Connecticut. 1887 - 1980
Naive views, animal
Kentucky. 1905 - 1998
Biblical theme carved folk art figures, decorative and utilitarian objects
Georgia. 1928 - 2005
Naive figure
Alabama. Born 1950
Sandstone sculpture, assemblage, figure painting
Pennsylvania. 1921 - 1987
Naive figure, circus animal
Alabama. 1923 - 2010
Naive religious vision
Alabama, Florida / Saudi Arabia. 1942 - 2009
Memory paintings of figure and genre sharecroping
Alabama. 1950 - 2018
Naive animal, figure
Georgia. 1945 - 2009
Naive, folk art painting
Mississippi. 1904 - 1994
Naive figure, assemblage sculpture
Alabama. 1908 - 1995
Naive figure, multiple portrait