California. Born 1924
Naive obsessive male portraits, fantasy faces, animals, people
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1921 Michigan - 2010 Detroit, Michigan. Known for: Folk painting, religious imagery.
Obituary. Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, March 19, 2010. They called him Prophet Blackmon. By Amy Rabideau Silvers. A self-styled preacher, healer and seer - someone who called himself "God's bum" -... Read full biography
Obituary. Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, March 19, 2010. They called him Prophet Blackmon. By Amy Rabideau Silvers. A self-styled preacher, healer and seer - someone who called himself "God's bum" - William Joshua Blackmon also became an accidental artist later in life. "Prophet was one of the great... Read full biography
Obituary. Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, March 19, 2010. They called him Prophet Blackmon. By Amy Rabideau Silvers. A self-styled preacher, healer and seer - someone who called himself "God's bum" - William Joshua Blackmon also became an accidental artist later in life. "Prophet was one of the great Milwaukee characters - and among the best self-taught artists ever to come out of Milwaukee," said Jeffrey R. Hayes, professor of art history at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. For his part,... Read full biography
Obituary. Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, March 19, 2010. They called him Prophet Blackmon. By Amy Rabideau Silvers. A self-styled preacher, healer and seer - someone who called himself "God's bum" - William Joshua Blackmon also became an accidental artist later in life. "Prophet was one of the great Milwaukee characters - and among the best self-taught artists ever to come out of Milwaukee," said Jeffrey R. Hayes, professor of art history at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. For his part, Blackmon regarded his art as a heaven-sent way to share his message and support his ministry. Blackmon died of natural causes Feb. 8 at the Veterans Affairs Medical Center in Detroit, where he moved only weeks earlier. He was 89. Blackmon was buried... Read full biography
Obituary. Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, March 19, 2010. They called him Prophet Blackmon. By Amy Rabideau Silvers. A self-styled preacher, healer and seer - someone who called himself "God's bum" - William Joshua Blackmon also became an accidental artist later in life. "Prophet was one of the great Milwaukee characters - and among the best self-taught artists ever to come out of Milwaukee," said Jeffrey R. Hayes, professor of art history at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. For his part, Blackmon regarded his art as a heaven-sent way to share his message and support his ministry. Blackmon died of natural causes Feb. 8 at the Veterans Affairs Medical Center in Detroit, where he moved only weeks earlier. He was 89. Blackmon was buried with military honors Feb. 25 in Michigan. His career as an artist began unexpectedly in 1982, a... Read full biography
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South Carolina, New York. 1911 - 1990
Naive figure-genre-outsider art
Virginia, Pennsylvania. 1889 - 1985
Folk art figure wood carvings
New Mexico. Born 1964
Naive wood carved santeros
Vermont. 1934 - 2005
Outsider art, naive painting
Louisiana / Morocco. 1945 - 2007
Folk art, wood carved totems, ceremonial canes, voodoos
Alabama. 1921 - 1989
Naive figure-faces, animal
Born 1943
Outsider, folk art painting
Tennessee. 1903 - 1976
Folk art wood carving-figure, wildlife
West Virginia. 1901 - 1995
Naive sculpture, drawing
Illinois, California, Michigan. 1869 - 1941
Sculpture
United States. 1896 - 1993
Scenes of early Florida, including cotton mills, lumber yards, and river boats.
United States. 1908 - 1995
Sculpture
Texas. 1898 - 1993
Cray-pas naive genre, figure and floral painting
Georgia. 1896 - 1987
Painting and sculpture
Mississippi, Tennessee. 1900 - 1996
Naive genre painting
Kentucky. 1906 - 1990
Folk art, naive painting and sculpture, bird and birdhouse sculpture, airplanes
United States. Born 1951
Folk art, paintings
Alabama. 1930 - 2004
Painting/ sculpture
United States. 20th Century
Painting
United States. 21st century
Folk art paintings
Florida. 1949 - 2022
Folk art painting, cartoonish, commercial images with written words, teaching
Texas. 1936 - 2006
Naive geometric painting, outsider art, word play
Georgia. 1931 - 2017
Painting
United States. 1919 - 2002
Pottery and clay art using pit-fire method
Virginia. 1923 - 2012
Folk sculpture
United States. 21st century
Sculpture
United States. Born 1960
Painting
Pennsylvania. 1921 - 1987
Naive figure, circus animal
United States. Born 1962
Paintings-folk art
New Mexico. Born 1920
Painting, cardboard cut-outs of animals
Alabama. Born 1972
Naive, outsider painting