Nebraska, Arizona / Italy. 1913 - 2002
Naive figure and genre painting
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1897 Turate, Italy - 1984. Known for: Woodcuts, naive genre-often violent, painting.
Self-taught painter, sculptor and printmaker Louis Monza was born in Turate, Italy, in 1897. At the age of seven, he was apprenticed to a wood carver and folk artisan. In 1913 he immigrated to the... Read full biography
Self-taught painter, sculptor and printmaker Louis Monza was born in Turate, Italy, in 1897. At the age of seven, he was apprenticed to a wood carver and folk artisan. In 1913 he immigrated to the United States. After arriving in New York City, he held a variety of odd jobs including dishwasher at... Read full biography
Self-taught painter, sculptor and printmaker Louis Monza was born in Turate, Italy, in 1897. At the age of seven, he was apprenticed to a wood carver and folk artisan. In 1913 he immigrated to the United States. After arriving in New York City, he held a variety of odd jobs including dishwasher at a restaurant and water boy for the Pennsylvania Railroad. Athough he was a lifelong pacifist, Monza was inducted into the army in 1917 and served in World War I. Following the war he supported himself... Read full biography
Self-taught painter, sculptor and printmaker Louis Monza was born in Turate, Italy, in 1897. At the age of seven, he was apprenticed to a wood carver and folk artisan. In 1913 he immigrated to the United States. After arriving in New York City, he held a variety of odd jobs including dishwasher at a restaurant and water boy for the Pennsylvania Railroad. Athough he was a lifelong pacifist, Monza was inducted into the army in 1917 and served in World War I. Following the war he supported himself as a house painter until 1937, when he was injured in a fall. During his lengthy convalescence he began to create art, a path from which he did not deviate for the remainder of his life. In 1946 Monza moved to California where he created prints and... Read full biography
Self-taught painter, sculptor and printmaker Louis Monza was born in Turate, Italy, in 1897. At the age of seven, he was apprenticed to a wood carver and folk artisan. In 1913 he immigrated to the United States. After arriving in New York City, he held a variety of odd jobs including dishwasher at a restaurant and water boy for the Pennsylvania Railroad. Athough he was a lifelong pacifist, Monza was inducted into the army in 1917 and served in World War I. Following the war he supported himself as a house painter until 1937, when he was injured in a fall. During his lengthy convalescence he began to create art, a path from which he did not deviate for the remainder of his life. In 1946 Monza moved to California where he created prints and sculpture as well as drawings and paintings, all of which carried on a monologue of social and political commentary on topics ranging f... Read full biography
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Mississippi. 1911 - 1997
Naive sculptor
Pennsylvania. 1921 - 1987
Naive figure, circus animal
Kentucky. 1906 - 1990
Folk art, naive painting and sculpture, bird and birdhouse sculpture, airplanes
Illinois. 1894 - 1989
Naive religio-historical carvings
Louisiana / Morocco. 1945 - 2007
Folk art, wood carved totems, ceremonial canes, voodoos
United States. 1919 - 2002
Pottery and clay art using pit-fire method
United States. 1883 - 1976
Folk art
Mississippi. 1913 - 1994
Naive figure-genre painting, carvings
Kentucky. 1912 - 1991
Folk art painting and carving
Alabama. Born 1951
Large scale abstract metal sculpture and painting
California. Born 1924
Naive obsessive male portraits, fantasy faces, animals, people
Kentucky. 1905 - 1998
Biblical theme carved folk art figures, decorative and utilitarian objects
Florida, Ohio. 1908 - 1986
Naive figure painting
South Carolina, New York. 1918 - 1971
Sculptur-figure
California. 1901 - 1989
Naive fantastic views
Tennessee. 1964 - 2022
Sculpture
Georgia, Ohio. 1938 - 1997
Woodcarver-folk art, religious, collaborative art
New York, Michigan / Israel. Born 1931
Naive religio-historical views, folk art painting
Louisiana. Born 1959
Modernist-leaning landscape, naive abstraction
Kentucky. Born 1935
Wood carving of folk, religous and historic figures, outsider art
New York. 1895 - 1998
Naive figure-genre, structure
North Carolina. 1943 - 2014
Decorative painting and sculpture, yard art, miniatures
Florida. 1887 - 1979
Naive wood carving
Georgia. Born 1934
Naive religious activities
United States. 1920 - 1997
Sculpture
Mississippi, Tennessee. 1900 - 1996
Naive genre painting
Mississippi. Born 1958
Naive religious activity
Alabama. 1930 - 2004
Painting/ sculpture
Alabama, Louisiana. 1926 - 2014
Naive, folk art style painting, political, racial themes
North Carolina. 1904 - 1998
Naive sculpture
West Virginia. 1901 - 1995
Naive sculpture, drawing