New York, New Jersey. 1909 - 1999
Outsider art, drawings
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1901 Huntsville, Alabama - 1990. Known for: Naive style genre, animal and portrait painting, totemic sculpture.
Born in 1901 in Huntsville, Alabama, William Dawson was raised on his grandfather's horse farm. In 1923, he moved to Chicago and made a thirty-five-year career as a well-regarded manager of... Read full biography
Born in 1901 in Huntsville, Alabama, William Dawson was raised on his grandfather's horse farm. In 1923, he moved to Chicago and made a thirty-five-year career as a well-regarded manager of operations at the E. E Aron Company, a wholesale produce distributor located on South Water Market. A man of... Read full biography
Born in 1901 in Huntsville, Alabama, William Dawson was raised on his grandfather's horse farm. In 1923, he moved to Chicago and made a thirty-five-year career as a well-regarded manager of operations at the E. E Aron Company, a wholesale produce distributor located on South Water Market. A man of the city with rural roots, Dawson turned to artmaking in his retirement years, taking adult education classes in ceramics and metalwork at a senior center, before gravitating to wood carving and... Read full biography
Born in 1901 in Huntsville, Alabama, William Dawson was raised on his grandfather's horse farm. In 1923, he moved to Chicago and made a thirty-five-year career as a well-regarded manager of operations at the E. E Aron Company, a wholesale produce distributor located on South Water Market. A man of the city with rural roots, Dawson turned to artmaking in his retirement years, taking adult education classes in ceramics and metalwork at a senior center, before gravitating to wood carving and painting. "I just see something lying in the street and I know it could be turned into something…I don't know what I'm going to do when I pick up a piece of wood, but the longer I look at it, it comes to me.". Dawson thrived on the praise his work began... Read full biography
Born in 1901 in Huntsville, Alabama, William Dawson was raised on his grandfather's horse farm. In 1923, he moved to Chicago and made a thirty-five-year career as a well-regarded manager of operations at the E. E Aron Company, a wholesale produce distributor located on South Water Market. A man of the city with rural roots, Dawson turned to artmaking in his retirement years, taking adult education classes in ceramics and metalwork at a senior center, before gravitating to wood carving and painting. "I just see something lying in the street and I know it could be turned into something…I don't know what I'm going to do when I pick up a piece of wood, but the longer I look at it, it comes to me.". Dawson thrived on the praise his work began to receive. To his astonishment, an exhibition of fifty works at the nearby Lincoln Park Library in 1972 sold out, bringing admiration and... Read full biography
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A Group of Three Articulated Figures, 1976-77
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United States. Born 1952
Folk art sculpture
North Carolina. 1943 - 2014
Decorative painting and sculpture, yard art, miniatures
Idaho. Born 1946
Quirky assemblages, finger painting, unique T-shirt designs
Kentucky. 1904 - 1984
Sculptor-folk art figures
California / Luxembourg. 1877 - 1964
Naive imaginary landscape
Georgia. 1928 - 2005
Naive figure
Kentucky. 1931 - 2012
Folk art
Georgia. Born 1932
Memory paintings
Louisiana. 1898 - 1997
Folk art sculpture, painting, yard art
Georgia, Ohio. 1938 - 1997
Woodcarver-folk art, religious, collaborative art
Illinois. 1894 - 1989
Naive religio-historical carvings
Virginia, Pennsylvania. 1889 - 1985
Folk art figure wood carvings
Vermont. 1934 - 2005
Outsider art, naive painting
Kentucky. 1906 - 1990
Folk art, naive painting and sculpture, bird and birdhouse sculpture, airplanes
Alabama. Born 1950
Sandstone sculpture, assemblage, figure painting
Florida, Ohio. 1908 - 1986
Naive figure painting
Alabama. Born 1951
Large scale abstract metal sculpture and painting
West Virginia. 1901 - 1995
Naive sculpture, drawing
California. Born 1924
Naive obsessive male portraits, fantasy faces, animals, people
Alabama. 1934 - 1985
Naive ethnic figure
Louisiana. 1959 - 2004
Mod naive urban genre
Louisiana / Morocco. 1945 - 2007
Folk art, wood carved totems, ceremonial canes, voodoos
Georgia. 1928 - 1994
Sculpture-ethnic subjects
Georgia. Born 1934
Naive religious activities
Mississippi. 1911 - 1997
Naive sculptor
Mississippi. 1922 - 2003
Folk carver-fanciful images, religion
Georgia. 1945 - 2009
Naive, folk art painting
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South Carolina. 1906 - 1985
Naive style figure, portrait and genre regionalist painting
North Carolina. 1904 - 1998
Naive sculpture
United States. 1948 - 2012
Folk art
North Carolina. 1931 - 1999
Naive high colored yard-art sculpture