Alabama. 1854 - 1947
Folk art painting
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1874 Davidson County, Tennessee - 1951 Nashville, Tennessee. Known for: Folk art sculpture, stone carving.
William Edmondson (1874 - 1951) was an African-American folk art sculptor. In 1937 Edmondson was the first African-American artist to be given a one-person show at the Museum of Modern Art in New... Read full biography
William Edmondson (1874 - 1951) was an African-American folk art sculptor. In 1937 Edmondson was the first African-American artist to be given a one-person show at the Museum of Modern Art in New York City. William Edmondson was born in 1874 in Davidson County, Tennessee. He did not know the exact... Read full biography
William Edmondson (1874 - 1951) was an African-American folk art sculptor. In 1937 Edmondson was the first African-American artist to be given a one-person show at the Museum of Modern Art in New York City. William Edmondson was born in 1874 in Davidson County, Tennessee. He did not know the exact year of his birth because of a fire that destroyed the family Bible. Recent research into census records indicates that he was born in December, 1874. He was one of six children of freed slaves Orange... Read full biography
William Edmondson (1874 - 1951) was an African-American folk art sculptor. In 1937 Edmondson was the first African-American artist to be given a one-person show at the Museum of Modern Art in New York City. William Edmondson was born in 1874 in Davidson County, Tennessee. He did not know the exact year of his birth because of a fire that destroyed the family Bible. Recent research into census records indicates that he was born in December, 1874. He was one of six children of freed slaves Orange and Jane Edmondson. He grew up in what was then a rural part Davidson County on the Compton plantation where his mother and father had been enslaved and now worked as sharecroppers. He had little or no formal education, and it was reported that he... Read full biography
William Edmondson (1874 - 1951) was an African-American folk art sculptor. In 1937 Edmondson was the first African-American artist to be given a one-person show at the Museum of Modern Art in New York City. William Edmondson was born in 1874 in Davidson County, Tennessee. He did not know the exact year of his birth because of a fire that destroyed the family Bible. Recent research into census records indicates that he was born in December, 1874. He was one of six children of freed slaves Orange and Jane Edmondson. He grew up in what was then a rural part Davidson County on the Compton plantation where his mother and father had been enslaved and now worked as sharecroppers. He had little or no formal education, and it was reported that he was unable to read or write. His father died sometime around 1889, and he and his siblings and mother moved into Nashville. Willia... Read full biography
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Ohio, Mississippi. 1892 - 1984
Folk art carvings, narrative, teacher, collaborative art
North Carolina. 1892 - 1987
Abstract, naive crayon drawing, religious and mystical
Kentucky. 1919 - 2020
Folk art memory and rural genre paintings, wood carving
Tennessee, New York / France. 1901 - 1979
Lyrical abstract painting, city scenes-jazz
Kentucky, Indiana. 1852 - 1932
Tree landscape, portrait and river genre painting
Kentucky. 1895 - 1990
Folk art painting and found object sculpture
Mississippi, Tennessee, Virginia. 1863/64 - 1946
Portrait likenesses of Civil War veterans, landscape and still life painting, teaching
Kentucky. 1904 - 1984
Sculptor-folk art figures
Tennessee, Arkansas, New York. 1913 - 1993
Portrait, genre and surreal view painting, illustration
Tennessee. 1925 - 2004
Figure, history, landscape, sculpture
Illinois / France. 1892 - 1973
Naive mixed-media, outsider artist
California / Mexico. 1895 - 1963
Outsider art, naive figure and animal paintings, drawings, collage
Idaho. 1899 - 1977
Found object collage, outsider art
Alabama. 1928 - 2016
Outsider art, rural genre and landscape painting, sculpture
Texas / Russian Federation. 1830 - 1923
Graphics, naive fantasy, collage
Louisiana. 1900 - 1980
Folk genre and religious theme painting, calligraphy, teaching
New York, Tennessee, New Jersey. 1855 - 1919
Frontier-war genre and landscape painting
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South Carolina. 1906 - 1985
Naive style figure, portrait and genre regionalist painting
Alabama. 1920 - 2006
Naive figure, self portrait, animals-Outsider art
Georgia. 1900 - 1982
Collage, assemblages and colored pencil images of dreams, animals, landscape
Pennsylvania. 1891 - 1977
Mod naive genre, floral, portrait
Alabama. 1965 - 1998
Naive views, animal, propaganda
Texas. 1898 - 1993
Cray-pas naive genre, figure and floral painting
Tennessee. 1933 - 2018
Rural and western scene, portrait and floral painting
South Carolina, New York. 1911 - 1990
Naive figure-genre-outsider art
Georgia, Alabama. 1916 - 2001
Naive religious-words, folk art constructions
West Virginia. 1901 - 1995
Naive sculpture, drawing
Pennsylvania. 1910 - 1991
Naive mining genre, landscape
Italy, Mexico. Born 1966
Painting
Alabama. 1910 - 2007
Outsider-animal, architecture, figure
Tennessee / Germany. 1925 - 2004
Painting