Ohio, Mississippi. 1892 - 1984
Folk art carvings, narrative, teacher, collaborative art
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1895 Kentucky - 1990. Known for: Folk art painting and found object sculpture.
Folk artist William L. Hawkins was born in rural Kentucky in 1895, coming north in 1916. His early years in Kentucky provided him with his knowledge and love of animals, an awareness that is seen... Read full biography
Folk artist William L. Hawkins was born in rural Kentucky in 1895, coming north in 1916. His early years in Kentucky provided him with his knowledge and love of animals, an awareness that is seen even in his most fantastic dinosaur paintings. Influenced by his grandmother who took part in the... Read full biography
Folk artist William L. Hawkins was born in rural Kentucky in 1895, coming north in 1916. His early years in Kentucky provided him with his knowledge and love of animals, an awareness that is seen even in his most fantastic dinosaur paintings. Influenced by his grandmother who took part in the African American tradition of quilt making, Hawkins' paintings show many similarities -- including exploding color schemes, various materials used within a single piece and an improvisational repetitive... Read full biography
Folk artist William L. Hawkins was born in rural Kentucky in 1895, coming north in 1916. His early years in Kentucky provided him with his knowledge and love of animals, an awareness that is seen even in his most fantastic dinosaur paintings. Influenced by his grandmother who took part in the African American tradition of quilt making, Hawkins' paintings show many similarities -- including exploding color schemes, various materials used within a single piece and an improvisational repetitive pattern. In Columbus, Ohio, Hawkins, barely able to read and write, held an assortment of unskilled jobs, drove a truck, and even ran a small brothel. He was married twice and claimed to have fathered some twenty children. Although Hawkins was drawing... Read full biography
Folk artist William L. Hawkins was born in rural Kentucky in 1895, coming north in 1916. His early years in Kentucky provided him with his knowledge and love of animals, an awareness that is seen even in his most fantastic dinosaur paintings. Influenced by his grandmother who took part in the African American tradition of quilt making, Hawkins' paintings show many similarities -- including exploding color schemes, various materials used within a single piece and an improvisational repetitive pattern. In Columbus, Ohio, Hawkins, barely able to read and write, held an assortment of unskilled jobs, drove a truck, and even ran a small brothel. He was married twice and claimed to have fathered some twenty children. Although Hawkins was drawing and selling his work as early as the 1930's, he did not begin painting in the style for which he is best known until the mid-to late 1970s. He... Read full biography
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Slide 1 of 3: NEIL HOUSE WITH CHIMNEY #2
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JUKE BOX
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Puma Kitten, circa 1985
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South Carolina. 1906 - 1985
Naive style figure, portrait and genre regionalist painting
Texas. 1898 - 1993
Cray-pas naive genre, figure and floral painting
New York, British Columbia / Canada. Born 1936
Naive sculpture
Georgia. 1900 - 1982
Collage, assemblages and colored pencil images of dreams, animals, landscape
Alabama. 1928 - 2016
Outsider art, rural genre and landscape painting, sculpture
North Carolina. 1892 - 1987
Abstract, naive crayon drawing, religious and mystical
Louisiana / Morocco. 1945 - 2007
Folk art, wood carved totems, ceremonial canes, voodoos
Alabama. 1854 - 1947
Folk art painting
West Virginia. 1901 - 1995
Naive sculpture, drawing
Alabama. 1910 - 2007
Outsider-animal, architecture, figure
Illinois, Arizona. 1886 - 1972
Naive dream-landscape, outsider art
California. Born 1924
Naive obsessive male portraits, fantasy faces, animals, people
Mississippi. 1904 - 1994
Naive figure, assemblage sculpture
Pennsylvania. 1891 - 1977
Mod naive genre, floral, portrait
Georgia, Ohio. 1938 - 1997
Woodcarver-folk art, religious, collaborative art
California / Mexico. 1895 - 1963
Outsider art, naive figure and animal paintings, drawings, collage
Idaho. 1899 - 1977
Found object collage, outsider art
California. 1898 - 1993
Naive genre-figure-animal painting
Illinois, Alabama. 1901 - 1990
Naive style genre, animal and portrait painting, totemic sculpture
Louisiana. 1898 - 1997
Folk art sculpture, painting, yard art
Florida, Ohio. 1908 - 1986
Naive figure painting
Alabama. 1908 - 1995
Naive figure, multiple portrait
South Carolina, New York. 1911 - 1990
Naive figure-genre-outsider art
Georgia. 1908 - 1997
Pointillist folk art image painting, landscape, farmlife, animals, figures and portraits
Georgia. 1908 - 1988
Naive-imagery, drawings, hallucination art from found objects, rocks
North Carolina. 1904 - 1998
Naive sculpture
Vermont. 1934 - 2005
Outsider art, naive painting
New Mexico. 1910 - 1991
Sculptor, folk art, naive sketches
Illinois. 1908 - 1994
Outsider art self portrait painting and mixed media
Louisiana. 1900 - 1980
Folk genre and religious theme painting, calligraphy, teaching
Illinois. Born 1953
Naive classical figure and portrait painting