Louisiana. 1898 - 1997
Folk art sculpture, painting, yard art
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Born 1950 Birmingham, Alabama. Known for: Sandstone sculpture, assemblage, figure painting.
Lonnie Holley was born the seventh of twenty-seven children in Birmingham, Alabama. He was moved around from foster home to foster home, until he ran away to Louisiana when he was fourteen. He... Read full biography
Lonnie Holley was born the seventh of twenty-seven children in Birmingham, Alabama. He was moved around from foster home to foster home, until he ran away to Louisiana when he was fourteen. He drifted around the South working as a short-order cook in Louisiana, Florida and Alabama. Eventually... Read full biography
Lonnie Holley was born the seventh of twenty-seven children in Birmingham, Alabama. He was moved around from foster home to foster home, until he ran away to Louisiana when he was fourteen. He drifted around the South working as a short-order cook in Louisiana, Florida and Alabama. Eventually Holley settled in Birmingham to be near family. When his sister's two children died in a house fire in 1979, Holley became so depressed that he almost committed suicide. In the weeks that followed, he... Read full biography
Lonnie Holley was born the seventh of twenty-seven children in Birmingham, Alabama. He was moved around from foster home to foster home, until he ran away to Louisiana when he was fourteen. He drifted around the South working as a short-order cook in Louisiana, Florida and Alabama. Eventually Holley settled in Birmingham to be near family. When his sister's two children died in a house fire in 1979, Holley became so depressed that he almost committed suicide. In the weeks that followed, he decided to do something constructive with his grief. As the family could not afford to buy tombstones for the children, he decided to make them himself. "I asked God to give me something so that I may go to the top in life, and he did. I use the setting... Read full biography
Lonnie Holley was born the seventh of twenty-seven children in Birmingham, Alabama. He was moved around from foster home to foster home, until he ran away to Louisiana when he was fourteen. He drifted around the South working as a short-order cook in Louisiana, Florida and Alabama. Eventually Holley settled in Birmingham to be near family. When his sister's two children died in a house fire in 1979, Holley became so depressed that he almost committed suicide. In the weeks that followed, he decided to do something constructive with his grief. As the family could not afford to buy tombstones for the children, he decided to make them himself. "I asked God to give me something so that I may go to the top in life, and he did. I use the setting sun, the stars, the hills--all that has affected my imagination and what I put in my work. The "Tombstones" were Holley's first works o... Read full biography
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Georgia. 1928 - 2005
Naive figure
Kentucky. 1931 - 2012
Folk art
Georgia. Born 1932
Memory paintings
Virginia, Pennsylvania. 1889 - 1985
Folk art figure wood carvings
United States, Poland. 1913 - 1998
Painting with embellishments of precious gems and metals, pasted jewelry from the 50’s and 60’s.
Alabama. Born 1951
Large scale abstract metal sculpture and painting
Alabama. 1928 - 2016
Outsider art, rural genre and landscape painting, sculpture
Alabama. 1950 - 2018
Naive animal, figure
Alabama. 1908 - 1995
Naive figure, multiple portrait
Virginia. 1915 - 2000
Naive figure, outsider art, murals
West Virginia. 1901 - 1995
Naive sculpture, drawing
Vermont. 1934 - 2005
Outsider art, naive painting
North Carolina. 1904 - 1998
Naive sculpture
Alabama. 1934 - 1985
Naive ethnic figure
Alabama. 1923 - 2010
Naive religious vision
Mississippi. 1922 - 2003
Folk carver-fanciful images, religion
New York, Michigan / Israel. Born 1931
Naive religio-historical views, folk art painting
South Carolina, Maryland. 1944 - 2020
Post modern symbolism, folk art
Illinois, Alabama. 1901 - 1990
Naive style genre, animal and portrait painting, totemic sculpture
North Carolina. 1931 - 1999
Naive high colored yard-art sculpture
Georgia. Born 1934
Naive religious activities
Florida. 1887 - 1979
Naive wood carving
Louisiana. 1959 - 2004
Mod naive urban genre
Georgia, Ohio. 1938 - 1997
Woodcarver-folk art, religious, collaborative art
Louisiana. 1936 - 1997
Naive figure-women
Mississippi. 1904 - 1994
Naive figure, assemblage sculpture
New York. 1934 - 2005
Naive views
Alabama, Florida / Saudi Arabia. 1942 - 2009
Memory paintings of figure and genre sharecroping
Mississippi, Tennessee. 1900 - 1996
Naive genre painting
Mississippi. 1913 - 1994
Naive figure-genre painting, carvings
Florida, Ohio. 1908 - 1986
Naive figure painting