Kentucky. 1906 - 1990
Folk art, naive painting and sculpture, bird and birdhouse sculpture, airplanes
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1897 Navajo Reservation, New Mexico - 1964 Navajo Reservation, New Mexico. Known for: Iconic Indian motif wood carved figures, folk art.
Charlie Willeto, Active in Blanco Canyon, New Mexico. A traditional Navajo sheepherder, Charlie Willeto began carving in the early 1960s, only a few years before his death. He used his works as... Read full biography
Charlie Willeto, Active in Blanco Canyon, New Mexico. A traditional Navajo sheepherder, Charlie Willeto began carving in the early 1960s, only a few years before his death. He used his works as barter—a standard form of trade on the reservation—for groceries at the Mauzy Trading Post near Lybrook.... Read full biography
Charlie Willeto, Active in Blanco Canyon, New Mexico. A traditional Navajo sheepherder, Charlie Willeto began carving in the early 1960s, only a few years before his death. He used his works as barter—a standard form of trade on the reservation—for groceries at the Mauzy Trading Post near Lybrook. Jim Mauzy accepted Willeto’s carvings, although they differed from the more conventional Navajo crafts of weaving and silverwork. Only one other life-sized carving exists; most of Willeto’s four... Read full biography
Charlie Willeto, Active in Blanco Canyon, New Mexico. A traditional Navajo sheepherder, Charlie Willeto began carving in the early 1960s, only a few years before his death. He used his works as barter—a standard form of trade on the reservation—for groceries at the Mauzy Trading Post near Lybrook. Jim Mauzy accepted Willeto’s carvings, although they differed from the more conventional Navajo crafts of weaving and silverwork. Only one other life-sized carving exists; most of Willeto’s four hundred figures range in size from twelve to thirty inches. Willeto’s figures came from a heritage of carving that had little to do with commercial signs. A Navajo curing rite, ?‘awééshíín’análnééh, prominently featured the carving of human figurines.... Read full biography
Charlie Willeto, Active in Blanco Canyon, New Mexico. A traditional Navajo sheepherder, Charlie Willeto began carving in the early 1960s, only a few years before his death. He used his works as barter—a standard form of trade on the reservation—for groceries at the Mauzy Trading Post near Lybrook. Jim Mauzy accepted Willeto’s carvings, although they differed from the more conventional Navajo crafts of weaving and silverwork. Only one other life-sized carving exists; most of Willeto’s four hundred figures range in size from twelve to thirty inches. Willeto’s figures came from a heritage of carving that had little to do with commercial signs. A Navajo curing rite, ?‘awééshíín’análnééh, prominently featured the carving of human figurines. These were usually between four and eight inches long, and were used only in a religious context specific to that ceremony. After the rite’s... Read full biography
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Naive figure
United States. 20th century
Painting
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Naive, folk art painting
Louisiana / Morocco. 1945 - 2007
Folk art, wood carved totems, ceremonial canes, voodoos
Texas. 1936 - 2006
Naive geometric painting, outsider art, word play
Illinois. 1894 - 1989
Naive religio-historical carvings
Georgia. 1908 - 1988
Naive-imagery, drawings, hallucination art from found objects, rocks
United States. Born 1951
Folk art, paintings
Georgia. Born 1934
Naive religious activities
Kentucky. 1905 - 1998
Biblical theme carved folk art figures, decorative and utilitarian objects
Alabama. 1923 - 2010
Naive religious vision
United States. 1908 - 1995
Sculpture
North Carolina. 1904 - 1998
Naive sculpture
Florida. 1887 - 1979
Naive wood carving
Georgia, Ohio. 1938 - 1997
Woodcarver-folk art, religious, collaborative art
Wisconsin. 1914 - 2000
Naive collage, assemblage, outsider art
Mississippi, Tennessee. 1900 - 1996
Naive genre painting
Missouri. 1885 - 1983
Folk art
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South Carolina. 1906 - 1985
Naive style figure, portrait and genre regionalist painting
Nebraska, Arizona / Italy. 1913 - 2002
Naive figure and genre painting
New Mexico. Born 1949
Sculptor-wooden animal
Georgia. Born 1966
Naive, folk art painting
Alabama. 1930 - 2004
Painting/ sculpture
Mississippi. 1904 - 1994
Naive figure, assemblage sculpture
Florida. 1949 - 2022
Folk art painting, cartoonish, commercial images with written words, teaching
Alabama. Born 1951
Large scale abstract metal sculpture and painting
Vermont. 1934 - 2005
Outsider art, naive painting
United States. 1908 - 1986
Painting
Kentucky. 1931 - 2012
Folk art
California. Born 1924
Naive obsessive male portraits, fantasy faces, animals, people