Illinois. 1894 - 1989
Naive religio-historical carvings
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1903 Hillsboro, Maryland - 1978 New York, New York. Known for: Naive urban street genre painting.
This following biography was researched, compiled, and written by Geoffrey K. Fleming, Executive Director, Huntington Museum of Art, Huntington, WV. VESTIE EDWARD DAVIS (November 10, 1903 – November... Read full biography
This following biography was researched, compiled, and written by Geoffrey K. Fleming, Executive Director, Huntington Museum of Art, Huntington, WV. VESTIE EDWARD DAVIS (November 10, 1903 – November 1978). A.K.A. “Vestie E. Davis,” “Vesty Davis”. Self-taught painter of city scenes and animals. Born... Read full biography
This following biography was researched, compiled, and written by Geoffrey K. Fleming, Executive Director, Huntington Museum of Art, Huntington, WV. VESTIE EDWARD DAVIS (November 10, 1903 – November 1978). A.K.A. “Vestie E. Davis,” “Vesty Davis”. Self-taught painter of city scenes and animals. Born in Hillsboro, Maryland, the son of Jennie D. (b. 1880) and Edward B. Davis (1879 – 1961), his father was a blacksmith and the family resided in Hillsboro, a small town located on the eastern shore of... Read full biography
This following biography was researched, compiled, and written by Geoffrey K. Fleming, Executive Director, Huntington Museum of Art, Huntington, WV. VESTIE EDWARD DAVIS (November 10, 1903 – November 1978). A.K.A. “Vestie E. Davis,” “Vesty Davis”. Self-taught painter of city scenes and animals. Born in Hillsboro, Maryland, the son of Jennie D. (b. 1880) and Edward B. Davis (1879 – 1961), his father was a blacksmith and the family resided in Hillsboro, a small town located on the eastern shore of Maryland. While Davis reported doing some drawing as a child, he did not return to his artwork until later in life. During the interim he moved to New York (1928) where he worked for nearly two decades at a variety of jobs, including railroad... Read full biography
This following biography was researched, compiled, and written by Geoffrey K. Fleming, Executive Director, Huntington Museum of Art, Huntington, WV. VESTIE EDWARD DAVIS (November 10, 1903 – November 1978). A.K.A. “Vestie E. Davis,” “Vesty Davis”. Self-taught painter of city scenes and animals. Born in Hillsboro, Maryland, the son of Jennie D. (b. 1880) and Edward B. Davis (1879 – 1961), his father was a blacksmith and the family resided in Hillsboro, a small town located on the eastern shore of Maryland. While Davis reported doing some drawing as a child, he did not return to his artwork until later in life. During the interim he moved to New York (1928) where he worked for nearly two decades at a variety of jobs, including railroad conductor, embalmer, circus barker and ticket taker, newsstand operator, pall bearer and organist. The last position, that of or... Read full biography
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Louisiana / Morocco. 1945 - 2007
Folk art, wood carved totems, ceremonial canes, voodoos
West Virginia. 1901 - 1995
Naive sculpture, drawing
Georgia, Ohio. 1938 - 1997
Woodcarver-folk art, religious, collaborative art
Florida, Ohio. 1908 - 1986
Naive figure painting
Vermont. 1934 - 2005
Outsider art, naive painting
Alabama. Born 1951
Large scale abstract metal sculpture and painting
Georgia. 1945 - 2009
Naive, folk art painting
New York, Florida. 1890 - 1965
Primitive urban-landscape
Alabama, Louisiana. 1926 - 2014
Naive, folk art style painting, political, racial themes
Texas. 1898 - 1993
Cray-pas naive genre, figure and floral painting
Kentucky. 1931 - 2012
Folk art
Georgia. Born 1934
Naive religious activities
Kentucky. 1906 - 1990
Folk art, naive painting and sculpture, bird and birdhouse sculpture, airplanes
North Carolina. 1904 - 1998
Naive sculpture
Alabama. 1923 - 2010
Naive religious vision
North Carolina. 1931 - 1999
Naive high colored yard-art sculpture
New York, Michigan / Israel. Born 1931
Naive religio-historical views, folk art painting
Georgia. 1900 - 1982
Collage, assemblages and colored pencil images of dreams, animals, landscape
California. Born 1924
Naive obsessive male portraits, fantasy faces, animals, people
Illinois, Alabama. 1901 - 1990
Naive style genre, animal and portrait painting, totemic sculpture
Mississippi. 1911 - 1997
Naive sculptor
Mississippi. Born 1958
Naive religious activity
New York. 1895 - 1998
Naive figure-genre, structure
New York. 1910 - 1983
Naive religious and other fantasy painting
Alabama. 1950 - 2018
Naive animal, figure
Kentucky. 1906 - 1991
Naive religious, sculptor
Alabama. Born 1950
Sandstone sculpture, assemblage, figure painting
Louisiana. 1898 - 1997
Folk art sculpture, painting, yard art
United States. 1908 - 1995
Sculpture
Alabama. 1908 - 1995
Naive figure, multiple portrait
Nebraska, Arizona / Italy. 1913 - 2002
Naive figure and genre painting