Virginia. 1915 - 2000
Naive figure, outsider art, murals
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Born 1931 Bronx, New York. Known for: Naive religio-historical views, folk art painting.
Malcah Zeldis (born Mildred Brightman; September 22, 1931) is a Jewish American folk painter. She is known for work that draws from a mix of biblical, historical, and autobiographical themes. Malcah... Read full biography
Malcah Zeldis (born Mildred Brightman; September 22, 1931) is a Jewish American folk painter. She is known for work that draws from a mix of biblical, historical, and autobiographical themes. Malcah Zeldis was born in the Bronx, New York, and raised in a Jewish ghetto in Detroit, Michigan. Her... Read full biography
Malcah Zeldis (born Mildred Brightman; September 22, 1931) is a Jewish American folk painter. She is known for work that draws from a mix of biblical, historical, and autobiographical themes. Malcah Zeldis was born in the Bronx, New York, and raised in a Jewish ghetto in Detroit, Michigan. Her father faced work discrimination for his religion and the family was poor, but eventually moved to a middle-class neighborhood. However, Zeldis looks back on her years in Detroit fondly, stating that what... Read full biography
Malcah Zeldis (born Mildred Brightman; September 22, 1931) is a Jewish American folk painter. She is known for work that draws from a mix of biblical, historical, and autobiographical themes. Malcah Zeldis was born in the Bronx, New York, and raised in a Jewish ghetto in Detroit, Michigan. Her father faced work discrimination for his religion and the family was poor, but eventually moved to a middle-class neighborhood. However, Zeldis looks back on her years in Detroit fondly, stating that what she remembers best is the nature. She also remembers weekend visits to the Detroit Institute of Arts where she recalls being taken by brightly colored Flemish paintings full of small figures. These paintings would later inspire her colorful works... Read full biography
Malcah Zeldis (born Mildred Brightman; September 22, 1931) is a Jewish American folk painter. She is known for work that draws from a mix of biblical, historical, and autobiographical themes. Malcah Zeldis was born in the Bronx, New York, and raised in a Jewish ghetto in Detroit, Michigan. Her father faced work discrimination for his religion and the family was poor, but eventually moved to a middle-class neighborhood. However, Zeldis looks back on her years in Detroit fondly, stating that what she remembers best is the nature. She also remembers weekend visits to the Detroit Institute of Arts where she recalls being taken by brightly colored Flemish paintings full of small figures. These paintings would later inspire her colorful works with many small figures. As a non-devout Jew, Zeldis felt disconnected from her people and wanted to explore her heritage. She moved to Isr... Read full biography
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Arriving in New York. (Second Part of Family Saga Triptych)
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Life In The Lower Eastside. (Third Part of Family Saga Triptych)
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Alabama. Born 1951
Large scale abstract metal sculpture and painting
Alabama. 1923 - 2010
Naive religious vision
Georgia. Born 1934
Naive religious activities
Florida, Ohio. 1908 - 1986
Naive figure painting
Florida. 1887 - 1979
Naive wood carving
North Carolina. 1904 - 1998
Naive sculpture
Illinois. 1894 - 1989
Naive religio-historical carvings
Louisiana. 1959 - 2004
Mod naive urban genre
Alabama. 1950 - 2018
Naive animal, figure
Alabama. Born 1950
Sandstone sculpture, assemblage, figure painting
California. Born 1924
Naive obsessive male portraits, fantasy faces, animals, people
Kentucky. 1906 - 1990
Folk art, naive painting and sculpture, bird and birdhouse sculpture, airplanes
Alabama. 1934 - 1985
Naive ethnic figure
Georgia. 1928 - 2005
Naive figure
Louisiana / Morocco. 1945 - 2007
Folk art, wood carved totems, ceremonial canes, voodoos
Mississippi. 1922 - 2003
Folk carver-fanciful images, religion
West Virginia. 1901 - 1995
Naive sculpture, drawing
North Carolina. 1931 - 1999
Naive high colored yard-art sculpture
Georgia, Ohio. 1938 - 1997
Woodcarver-folk art, religious, collaborative art
Mississippi. 1911 - 1997
Naive sculptor
Kentucky. 1905 - 1998
Biblical theme carved folk art figures, decorative and utilitarian objects
Vermont. 1934 - 2005
Outsider art, naive painting
Mississippi. 1913 - 1994
Naive figure-genre painting, carvings
Alabama, Louisiana. 1926 - 2014
Naive, folk art style painting, political, racial themes
South Carolina, Maryland. 1944 - 2020
Post modern symbolism, folk art
New York / Austria. 1917 - 2004
Folk art motif (Statue of Liberty)
Illinois, Alabama. 1901 - 1990
Naive style genre, animal and portrait painting, totemic sculpture
Mississippi. 1904 - 1994
Naive figure, assemblage sculpture
Alabama, Florida / Saudi Arabia. 1942 - 2009
Memory paintings of figure and genre sharecroping
Alabama. 1908 - 1995
Naive figure, multiple portrait
United States. Born 1962
Paintings-folk art