Tennessee. 1964 - 2022
Sculpture
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1921 Locust Grove, Georgia - 2012. Known for: Cartoonish sanitation worker sign paintings, junk converted to art.
Willie Jinks (1921 - 2012), was a self-taught Black artist from Atlanta, GA. Jinks was born into a sharecropper family in Locust Grove, Georgia, and was one of 13 children. He eventually moved to... Read full biography
Willie Jinks (1921 - 2012), was a self-taught Black artist from Atlanta, GA. Jinks was born into a sharecropper family in Locust Grove, Georgia, and was one of 13 children. He eventually moved to Atlanta as a young man, where he began working for the department of sanitation. Later in life, and... Read full biography
Willie Jinks (1921 - 2012), was a self-taught Black artist from Atlanta, GA. Jinks was born into a sharecropper family in Locust Grove, Georgia, and was one of 13 children. He eventually moved to Atlanta as a young man, where he began working for the department of sanitation. Later in life, and while on the job, Jinks began salvaging and collecting junk found on the job to make into art. In the artist's own words, “People throws this stuff out. I get in my van and go collect it, and bring it... Read full biography
Willie Jinks (1921 - 2012), was a self-taught Black artist from Atlanta, GA. Jinks was born into a sharecropper family in Locust Grove, Georgia, and was one of 13 children. He eventually moved to Atlanta as a young man, where he began working for the department of sanitation. Later in life, and while on the job, Jinks began salvaging and collecting junk found on the job to make into art. In the artist's own words, “People throws this stuff out. I get in my van and go collect it, and bring it back to the Hobby Shop”. His “Hobby Shop” was a small shed in the backyard that eventually overflowed to encompass his home and yard. During his prolific life, Willie Jinks created many whirligigs for his front yard and also made a large number of... Read full biography
Willie Jinks (1921 - 2012), was a self-taught Black artist from Atlanta, GA. Jinks was born into a sharecropper family in Locust Grove, Georgia, and was one of 13 children. He eventually moved to Atlanta as a young man, where he began working for the department of sanitation. Later in life, and while on the job, Jinks began salvaging and collecting junk found on the job to make into art. In the artist's own words, “People throws this stuff out. I get in my van and go collect it, and bring it back to the Hobby Shop”. His “Hobby Shop” was a small shed in the backyard that eventually overflowed to encompass his home and yard. During his prolific life, Willie Jinks created many whirligigs for his front yard and also made a large number of paintings depicting his memories of life growing up in rural Georgia, animals, fantastical crea... Read full biography
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United States. 1948 - 2012
Folk art
Kentucky. 1906 - 1990
Folk art, naive painting and sculpture, bird and birdhouse sculpture, airplanes
Georgia. 1916 - 1999
Sculpture-face jugs
New Mexico. Born 1976
Naive wood carving
Mississippi. Born 1958
Naive religious activity
Kentucky. 20th Century
Folk art sculpture
Georgia. 1916 - 2009
Sculpture--face jugs
United States. 1919 - 2002
Pottery and clay art using pit-fire method
Florida, Arkansas. Born 1938
Abstract portrait masks on metal, wood or tin, painting
Georgia. 1931 - 2017
Painting
New Jersey. 1915 - 1993
Old Testament wood figure carving, junk dealer
Alabama. Born 1972
Naive, outsider painting
United States. Born 1962
Paintings-folk art
United States. 1908 - 1995
Sculpture
Illinois, Alabama. 1901 - 1990
Naive style genre, animal and portrait painting, totemic sculpture
Born 1943
Outsider, folk art painting
California. Born 1924
Naive obsessive male portraits, fantasy faces, animals, people
Kentucky. 1906 - 1991
Naive religious, sculptor
Georgia. 1932 - 2017
Folk art carving
Vermont. 1934 - 2005
Outsider art, naive painting
Georgia. Born 1932
Memory paintings
New York. 1895 - 1998
Naive figure-genre, structure
New York. Born 1919
Naive animal, still life
Louisiana. 1925 - 2001
Folk art
North Carolina. Born 1955
Sculpture--face jug
Alabama. 1930 - 2004
Painting/ sculpture
Georgia. 1912 - 2006
Folk art
United States. 1909 - 1987
Sculpture
New Mexico. Born 1920
Painting, cardboard cut-outs of animals
United States. Born 1952
Folk art pottery
United States. 1980s
Sculpture face jugs