Alabama. Born 1950
Sandstone sculpture, assemblage, figure painting
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1898 Saint Mary Parish, Louisiana - 1997. Known for: Folk art sculpture, painting, yard art.
David Butler: 1898-1997, lived and worked in Patterson, Louisiana. One of the first recognized stars of Southern African-American yard art, David Butler installed a fantastic tin zoological... Read full biography
David Butler: 1898-1997, lived and worked in Patterson, Louisiana. One of the first recognized stars of Southern African-American yard art, David Butler installed a fantastic tin zoological environment on and outside his home in Patterson, Louisiana, over the course of several decades. Butler... Read full biography
David Butler: 1898-1997, lived and worked in Patterson, Louisiana. One of the first recognized stars of Southern African-American yard art, David Butler installed a fantastic tin zoological environment on and outside his home in Patterson, Louisiana, over the course of several decades. Butler turned to art in middle age, after a work-related injury at a sawmill. But he managed to bridge his private environment and the broader art world, first rising to prominence with the landmark 1982... Read full biography
David Butler: 1898-1997, lived and worked in Patterson, Louisiana. One of the first recognized stars of Southern African-American yard art, David Butler installed a fantastic tin zoological environment on and outside his home in Patterson, Louisiana, over the course of several decades. Butler turned to art in middle age, after a work-related injury at a sawmill. But he managed to bridge his private environment and the broader art world, first rising to prominence with the landmark 1982 exhibition "Black Folk Art in America, 1930-1980" at the Corcoran Gallery, Washington, DC. Only a year later, his yard environment was dismantled when illness required him to move in with family, and Butler's prolific and site-specific practice transformed... Read full biography
David Butler: 1898-1997, lived and worked in Patterson, Louisiana. One of the first recognized stars of Southern African-American yard art, David Butler installed a fantastic tin zoological environment on and outside his home in Patterson, Louisiana, over the course of several decades. Butler turned to art in middle age, after a work-related injury at a sawmill. But he managed to bridge his private environment and the broader art world, first rising to prominence with the landmark 1982 exhibition "Black Folk Art in America, 1930-1980" at the Corcoran Gallery, Washington, DC. Only a year later, his yard environment was dismantled when illness required him to move in with family, and Butler's prolific and site-specific practice transformed into the production of discrete objects intended for sale on the art market. The classic works for which he is known are brightly-c... Read full biography
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Georgia. 1928 - 2005
Naive figure
Kentucky. 1931 - 2012
Folk art
Virginia, Pennsylvania. 1889 - 1985
Folk art figure wood carvings
Georgia. Born 1932
Memory paintings
United States, Poland. 1913 - 1998
Painting with embellishments of precious gems and metals, pasted jewelry from the 50’s and 60’s.
Georgia, Ohio. 1938 - 1997
Woodcarver-folk art, religious, collaborative art
Illinois, Alabama. 1901 - 1990
Naive style genre, animal and portrait painting, totemic sculpture
Georgia. 1900 - 1982
Collage, assemblages and colored pencil images of dreams, animals, landscape
Louisiana / Morocco. 1945 - 2007
Folk art, wood carved totems, ceremonial canes, voodoos
Vermont. 1934 - 2005
Outsider art, naive painting
West Virginia. 1901 - 1995
Naive sculpture, drawing
Alabama. 1928 - 2016
Outsider art, rural genre and landscape painting, sculpture
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South Carolina. 1906 - 1985
Naive style figure, portrait and genre regionalist painting
Alabama. 1908 - 1995
Naive figure, multiple portrait
Texas. 1898 - 1993
Cray-pas naive genre, figure and floral painting
Illinois. 1894 - 1989
Naive religio-historical carvings
Mississippi. 1904 - 1994
Naive figure, assemblage sculpture
Florida, Ohio. 1908 - 1986
Naive figure painting
South Carolina, New York. 1911 - 1990
Naive figure-genre-outsider art
California. Born 1924
Naive obsessive male portraits, fantasy faces, animals, people
Alabama. Born 1951
Large scale abstract metal sculpture and painting
Mississippi. 1913 - 1994
Naive figure-genre painting, carvings
Georgia. Born 1934
Naive religious activities
Kentucky. 1906 - 1990
Folk art, naive painting and sculpture, bird and birdhouse sculpture, airplanes
Ohio, Mississippi. 1892 - 1984
Folk art carvings, narrative, teacher, collaborative art
Mississippi. 1911 - 1997
Naive sculptor
California. 1898 - 1993
Naive genre-figure-animal painting
New Mexico. 1910 - 1991
Sculptor, folk art, naive sketches
Mississippi, Tennessee. 1900 - 1996
Naive genre painting
Alabama, Louisiana. 1926 - 2014
Naive, folk art style painting, political, racial themes
Louisiana. 1959 - 2004
Mod naive urban genre