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Pinnacle, NC
Art World - James Harold Jennings
1930-1999
Painting & sculpture (unconventional material)
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Jennings dropped out of school in the fifth grade and was educated at home by his mother, a schoolteacher. In early adulthood, he worked as a projectionist at a drive-in movie theater. After his mother died, he supported himself by collecting and recycling cans found along busy highways, supplemented by a small inheritance. In the early 1980s he began building a series of small interconnecting structures across the road from his house, topped by whirligigs and homemade Ferris wheels. After his work was shown in the "Southern Visionary Folk Artists" exhibition in 1985, Jennings began working full-time making brightly colored wooden tableaux and assemblages inspired, he said, by electroencephalography and metempsychosis." Jennings committed suicide in 1999. His once impressive environment is now gone.
© Copyright Roger Manley, "Signs and Wonders, Outsider Art Inside North Carolina" by Roger Manley
© Copyright Roger Manley, "Signs and Wonders, Outsider Art Inside North Carolina" by Roger Manley
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Bibliography:
"Detour Art—Outsider, Folk Art, and Visionary Folk Art Environments Coast to Coast, Art and Photographs from the Collection of Kelly Ludwig" by Kelly Ludwig, Kansas City Star Books, 2007.
"Baking in the Sun, Visionary Images from the South" by Andy Nasisse and Maude Wahlman, University of Washington Press, exhibit catalog, 1987.
"O Appalachia: Artists of the Southern Mountain" by Ramona Lampell and Millard Lampell with David Larkin, 1989.
"20th Century American Folk, Self Taught, and Outsider Art" by Betty-Carol Sellen, Cynthia J. Johnson, Neal-Schuman Publishers, New York, 1993.
"Self-Made Worlds: Visionary Environments" by Roger Manley and Mark Sloan, Aperture, New York, 1997.
"Light of the Spirit : Portraits of Southern Outsider Artists" by Karekin Goekjian and Robert Peacock, University of Mississippi Press, 1998.
"Self Taught, Outsider, and Folk Art—A guide to American Artists, Locations and Resources" by Betty-Carol Sellen with Cynthia J. Johnson, McFarland & Company, 2000.
"Contemporary American Folk Art - A Collector's Guide" Chuck and Jan Rosenak, Abbeville Press, 1996.
"American Self-Taught Art: An Illustrated Analysis of 20th Century Artists and Trends with 1,319 Capsule Biographies" by Florence Laffal and Julius Laffal, 2003. |
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Credit: Kelly Ludwig |
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From the collection of Kelly Ludwig
Credit: Kelly Ludwig |
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From the collection of Kelly Ludwig, featured in the book Detour Art 2007.
Credit: Kelly Ludwig |
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From the collection of Kelly Ludwig, featured in the book Detour Art 2007.
Credit: Kelly Ludwig |
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From the collection of Kelly Ludwig, featured in the book Detour Art 2007.
Credit: Kelly Ludwig |
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From the collection of Kelly Ludwig, featured in the book ÒDetour ArtÓ 2007.
Credit: Kelly Ludwig |
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From the collection of Kelly Ludwig
Credit: Kelly Ludwig |
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From the collection of Kelly Ludwig
Credit: Kelly Ludwig |
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From the collection of Kelly Ludwig
Credit: Kelly Ludwig |
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From the collection of Kelly Ludwig
Credit: Kelly Ludwig |
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From the collection of Kelly Ludwig, featured in the book Detour Art 2007.
Credit: Kelly Ludwig |
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From the collection of Kelly Ludwig
Credit: Kelly Ludwig |
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From the collection of Kelly Ludwig
Credit: Kelly Ludwig |
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From the collection of Kelly Ludwig
Credit: Kelly Ludwig |
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From the collection of Kelly Ludwig
Credit: Kelly Ludwig |
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From the collection of Kelly Ludwig
Credit: Kelly Ludwig |
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From the collection of Kelly Ludwig
Credit: Kelly Ludwig |
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From the collection of Kelly Ludwig
Credit: Kelly Ludwig |
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From the collection of Kelly Ludwig
Credit: Kelly Ludwig |
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Credit: Mike Smith |
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Credit: Mike Smith |
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