North Carolina. 1904 - 1998
Naive sculpture
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1904 Mississippi - 1994. Known for: Naive figure, assemblage sculpture.
Mary Tillman Smith was born to sharecroppers in rural Mississippi. She was born with a hearing impairment which resulted in difficulty speaking or being understood. As a result, she was ostracized by... Read full biography
Mary Tillman Smith was born to sharecroppers in rural Mississippi. She was born with a hearing impairment which resulted in difficulty speaking or being understood. As a result, she was ostracized by the local community and turned to art as a refuge. Smith spent many years working as a domestic... Read full biography
Mary Tillman Smith was born to sharecroppers in rural Mississippi. She was born with a hearing impairment which resulted in difficulty speaking or being understood. As a result, she was ostracized by the local community and turned to art as a refuge. Smith spent many years working as a domestic servant and only began to explore her artistic talent following her retirement in the 1970s. Often working with found scrap metal and house paint, Smith created strong and audacious compositions... Read full biography
Mary Tillman Smith was born to sharecroppers in rural Mississippi. She was born with a hearing impairment which resulted in difficulty speaking or being understood. As a result, she was ostracized by the local community and turned to art as a refuge. Smith spent many years working as a domestic servant and only began to explore her artistic talent following her retirement in the 1970s. Often working with found scrap metal and house paint, Smith created strong and audacious compositions regularly inspired by her faith. Her paintings are highly coveted today and can be found in collections such as the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Smithsonian American Art Museum, and High Museum of Art. Smith’s art was on display earlier this year in the solo... Read full biography
Mary Tillman Smith was born to sharecroppers in rural Mississippi. She was born with a hearing impairment which resulted in difficulty speaking or being understood. As a result, she was ostracized by the local community and turned to art as a refuge. Smith spent many years working as a domestic servant and only began to explore her artistic talent following her retirement in the 1970s. Often working with found scrap metal and house paint, Smith created strong and audacious compositions regularly inspired by her faith. Her paintings are highly coveted today and can be found in collections such as the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Smithsonian American Art Museum, and High Museum of Art. Smith’s art was on display earlier this year in the solo show Mary T. Smith: I WE OUR at Shrine in New York. Gómez, Edward M. “The Bold, Blessed Paintings of a Sharecropper’s Daughter”. Hyperallergic. June... Read full biography
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Alabama. Born 1951
Large scale abstract metal sculpture and painting
Louisiana / Morocco. 1945 - 2007
Folk art, wood carved totems, ceremonial canes, voodoos
Georgia, North Carolina. 1938 - 1996
Abstract shape and figure, mural
Louisiana. 1900 - 1980
Folk genre and religious theme painting, calligraphy, teaching
Mississippi. 1922 - 2003
Folk carver-fanciful images, religion
Alabama. 1923 - 2010
Naive religious vision
Alabama. 1934 - 1985
Naive ethnic figure
Louisiana, Mississippi. 1908 - 2000
Primitive-mod views
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South Carolina. 1906 - 1985
Naive style figure, portrait and genre regionalist painting
Louisiana. 1898 - 1997
Folk art sculpture, painting, yard art
Haiti. 1923 - 2012
Pencil thin figure drawing, decorative art and mural painting
Georgia. 1900 - 1982
Collage, assemblages and colored pencil images of dreams, animals, landscape
Georgia. Born 1934
Naive religious activities
Alabama. 1908 - 1995
Naive figure, multiple portrait
Florida, Ohio. 1908 - 1986
Naive figure painting
Georgia, Ohio. 1938 - 1997
Woodcarver-folk art, religious, collaborative art
Alabama. 1950 - 2018
Naive animal, figure
Alabama. Born 1950
Sandstone sculpture, assemblage, figure painting
New York / Austria. 1917 - 2004
Folk art motif (Statue of Liberty)
Texas. 1898 - 1993
Cray-pas naive genre, figure and floral painting
Virginia. 1915 - 2000
Naive figure, outsider art, murals
Alabama, Florida / Saudi Arabia. 1942 - 2009
Memory paintings of figure and genre sharecroping
Louisiana. 1959 - 2004
Mod naive urban genre
Vermont. 1934 - 2005
Outsider art, naive painting
New York, Michigan / Israel. Born 1931
Naive religio-historical views, folk art painting
North Carolina. 1931 - 1999
Naive high colored yard-art sculpture
Alabama. 20th century
Naive-religious symbolic painting
Alabama. 1910 - 2007
Outsider-animal, architecture, figure
Kentucky. 1906 - 1990
Folk art, naive painting and sculpture, bird and birdhouse sculpture, airplanes
Illinois. 1894 - 1989
Naive religio-historical carvings
Alabama. 1904 - 1993
Folk art