Kentucky. 1895 - 1990
Folk art painting and found object sculpture
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1892 near Baldwin, Mississippi - 1984 Columbus, Ohio. Known for: Folk art carvings, narrative, teacher, collaborative art.
A folk-art carver of bas reliefs, Elijah Pierce created works that "are considered to be among the most important American folk carvings" of the 20th Century. (Rosenak 215). Described as a sculptural... Read full biography
A folk-art carver of bas reliefs, Elijah Pierce created works that "are considered to be among the most important American folk carvings" of the 20th Century. (Rosenak 215). Described as a sculptural storyteller, he did carvings of African-American sports heroes, biblical subjects and political and... Read full biography
A folk-art carver of bas reliefs, Elijah Pierce created works that "are considered to be among the most important American folk carvings" of the 20th Century. (Rosenak 215). Described as a sculptural storyteller, he did carvings of African-American sports heroes, biblical subjects and political and social issues. He is best known for his religious carvings including the Book of Wood, a series of thirty-three large reliefs with each representing one of the thirty-three years of the life on earth... Read full biography
A folk-art carver of bas reliefs, Elijah Pierce created works that "are considered to be among the most important American folk carvings" of the 20th Century. (Rosenak 215). Described as a sculptural storyteller, he did carvings of African-American sports heroes, biblical subjects and political and social issues. He is best known for his religious carvings including the Book of Wood, a series of thirty-three large reliefs with each representing one of the thirty-three years of the life on earth of Jesus Christ. Elijah Pierce began carving as a young child in Mississippi and settled in Columbus, Ohio where he ran his barbershop that had two rooms---one for the barber customers and one for displaying his carving. The largest collection of... Read full biography
A folk-art carver of bas reliefs, Elijah Pierce created works that "are considered to be among the most important American folk carvings" of the 20th Century. (Rosenak 215). Described as a sculptural storyteller, he did carvings of African-American sports heroes, biblical subjects and political and social issues. He is best known for his religious carvings including the Book of Wood, a series of thirty-three large reliefs with each representing one of the thirty-three years of the life on earth of Jesus Christ. Elijah Pierce began carving as a young child in Mississippi and settled in Columbus, Ohio where he ran his barbershop that had two rooms---one for the barber customers and one for displaying his carving. The largest collection of work including the "Book of Wood" series is at The Columbus Museum of Art in Columbus, Ohio. In 1993, that museum held a retrospecti... Read full biography
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South Carolina. 1906 - 1985
Naive style figure, portrait and genre regionalist painting
New Mexico. 1910 - 1991
Sculptor, folk art, naive sketches
Kentucky. 1904 - 1984
Sculptor-folk art figures
Florida. 1887 - 1979
Naive wood carving
West Virginia. 1901 - 1995
Naive sculpture, drawing
Georgia, Ohio. 1938 - 1997
Woodcarver-folk art, religious, collaborative art
North Carolina. 1931 - 1999
Naive high colored yard-art sculpture
Louisiana. 1898 - 1997
Folk art sculpture, painting, yard art
Georgia. 1900 - 1982
Collage, assemblages and colored pencil images of dreams, animals, landscape
Idaho. Born 1946
Quirky assemblages, finger painting, unique T-shirt designs
Tennessee. 1874 - 1951
Folk art sculpture, stone carving
New Mexico. Born 1949
Sculptor-wooden animal
Alabama. 1910 - 2007
Outsider-animal, architecture, figure
California. Born 1924
Naive obsessive male portraits, fantasy faces, animals, people
Virginia, Pennsylvania. 1889 - 1985
Folk art figure wood carvings
South Carolina, New York. 1911 - 1990
Naive figure-genre-outsider art
Alabama. 1854 - 1947
Folk art painting
Alabama, Louisiana. 1926 - 2014
Naive, folk art style painting, political, racial themes
Georgia, Alabama. 1916 - 2001
Naive religious-words, folk art constructions
California. 1898 - 1993
Naive genre-figure-animal painting
South Carolina, New York. 1918 - 1971
Sculptur-figure
Louisiana / Morocco. 1945 - 2007
Folk art, wood carved totems, ceremonial canes, voodoos
Florida, Ohio. 1908 - 1986
Naive figure painting
North Carolina. 1892 - 1987
Abstract, naive crayon drawing, religious and mystical
Georgia. Born 1934
Naive religious activities
Ohio. 1919 - 1985
Carving sculpture
Mississippi. 1911 - 1997
Naive sculptor
Texas. 1898 - 1993
Cray-pas naive genre, figure and floral painting
Alabama. Born 1951
Large scale abstract metal sculpture and painting
Mississippi. 1904 - 1994
Naive figure, assemblage sculpture
Alabama. 1908 - 1995
Naive figure, multiple portrait