Georgia. 1900 - 1982
Collage, assemblages and colored pencil images of dreams, animals, landscape
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1919 Wilson Country, North Carolina - 2013 Lucama, North Carolina. Known for: Whirligigs, found object kinetic metal sculpture.
Following is The New York Times obituary of the artist. By WILLIAM YARDLEY. Published: June 5, 2013. Vollis Simpson, who made metal scraps into magnificent things that twirled and jangled and... Read full biography
Following is The New York Times obituary of the artist. By WILLIAM YARDLEY. Published: June 5, 2013. Vollis Simpson, who made metal scraps into magnificent things that twirled and jangled and clattered when he set them out on his land, and who did so long before anyone started calling them... Read full biography
Following is The New York Times obituary of the artist. By WILLIAM YARDLEY. Published: June 5, 2013. Vollis Simpson, who made metal scraps into magnificent things that twirled and jangled and clattered when he set them out on his land, and who did so long before anyone started calling them whirligigs or him an artist, died on Friday at his home in Lucama, N.C. He was 94. His death was confirmed by his wife, Jean. Asked how her husband could visit a junkyard, gather odd objects and eventually... Read full biography
Following is The New York Times obituary of the artist. By WILLIAM YARDLEY. Published: June 5, 2013. Vollis Simpson, who made metal scraps into magnificent things that twirled and jangled and clattered when he set them out on his land, and who did so long before anyone started calling them whirligigs or him an artist, died on Friday at his home in Lucama, N.C. He was 94. His death was confirmed by his wife, Jean. Asked how her husband could visit a junkyard, gather odd objects and eventually produce a rocket ship or a guitar player or a team of horses pulling a carriage across the sky of eastern North Carolina and make it all look as natural as the breeze that animated it, Ms. Simpson explained, "It was just in his mind and in his brain... Read full biography
Following is The New York Times obituary of the artist. By WILLIAM YARDLEY. Published: June 5, 2013. Vollis Simpson, who made metal scraps into magnificent things that twirled and jangled and clattered when he set them out on his land, and who did so long before anyone started calling them whirligigs or him an artist, died on Friday at his home in Lucama, N.C. He was 94. His death was confirmed by his wife, Jean. Asked how her husband could visit a junkyard, gather odd objects and eventually produce a rocket ship or a guitar player or a team of horses pulling a carriage across the sky of eastern North Carolina and make it all look as natural as the breeze that animated it, Ms. Simpson explained, "It was just in his mind and in his brain and it just came out.". By the end of his life Mr. Simpson had become an art star. His 55-fo... Read full biography
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North Carolina. 1931 - 1999
Naive high colored yard-art sculpture
Alabama, Florida / Saudi Arabia. 1942 - 2009
Memory paintings of figure and genre sharecroping
Alabama. 1910 - 2007
Outsider-animal, architecture, figure
Haiti. 1931 - 2010
Modernist Haitian figure and genre painting, church murals
North Carolina. 1892 - 1987
Abstract, naive crayon drawing, religious and mystical
United States. 1923 - 1993
Sculpture--face jugs
California. Born 1924
Naive obsessive male portraits, fantasy faces, animals, people
Alabama. 1928 - 2016
Outsider art, rural genre and landscape painting, sculpture
Illinois. Born 1953
Naive classical figure and portrait painting
Ohio. 1891 - 1972
Folk art painting, musician
Louisiana / Morocco. 1945 - 2007
Folk art, wood carved totems, ceremonial canes, voodoos
South Carolina, New York. 1911 - 1990
Naive figure-genre-outsider art
New York. Born 1919
Naive animal, still life
Born 1920
Folk art paintings
Mississippi. 1926 - 1993
Naive sculptor
Vermont. 1934 - 2005
Outsider art, naive painting
West Virginia. 1901 - 1995
Naive sculpture, drawing
United States. 20th Century
Sculpture
West Virginia. Born 1967
Painting
United States. 1919 - 2002
Pottery and clay art using pit-fire method
Kentucky.
Collabortive folk sculpture
Kentucky. Born 1952
Folk art figure sculpture from hardwood tree trunks
Kentucky. Born 1935
Wood carving of folk, religous and historic figures, outsider art
Mississippi. 1911 - 1997
Naive sculptor
Tennessee. 1964 - 2022
Sculpture
United States. 1948 - 2012
Folk art
Virginia, Pennsylvania. 1889 - 1985
Folk art figure wood carvings
Alabama. 1921 - 1989
Naive figure-faces, animal
New York. 1910 - 1983
Naive religious and other fantasy painting
New York. 1895 - 1998
Naive figure-genre, structure
United States. 1920 - 1988
Sculpture