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Westfield, NC Raymond Coins 1904-1998 Carvings

Information: Raymond Coins was born in 1904 in Stuart, Virginia and moved to an area near Winston Salem North Carolina when he was 10. he emerged as one of the finest folk carvers of his time. His wooden and stone carvings have found their way into virtually every important private collection. Coins stopped carving in 1990 because of his advanced age and passed away in 1998. He was acknowledged for his work and received a North Carolina Folk Heritage Award in 1995. From America Oh Yes Gallery

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	America Oh Yes! Gallery: "Raymond Coins" Barbara Archer Gallery: "Raymond Coins" Ginger Young Gallery: "Raymond Coins" Slotin Folk Art The Anthony Petullo Collection of Self-Taught and Outsider Art
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Bibliography: "Baking in the Sun, Visionary Images from the South" by Andy Nasisse and Maude Wahlman, University of Washington Press, exhibit catalog, 1987. "Signs and Wonders: Outsider Art Inside North Carolina." "Museum of American Folk Art Encyclopedia of Twentieth Century American Folk Art and Artists" by Chuck and Jan Rosenak, Abbeville Press, New York, 1990. "Contemporary American Folk Art - A Collector's Guide" Chuck and Jan Rosenak, Abbeville Press, 1996. Slotin Folk Art Auction Catalog, Masterpiece Sale, November 4, 2006 "20th Century American Folk, Self Taught, and Outsider Art" by Betty-Carol Sellen, Cynthia J. Johnson, Neal-Schuman Publishers, New York, 1993. "Self Taught, Outsider, and Folk Art—A guide to American Artists, Locations and Resources" by Betty-Carol Sellen with Cynthia J. Johnson, 2000. "The Intuitive Eye, The Mendelsohn Collection" by Ricco/Maresca Gallery, 2000. "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. "Flying Free: Twentieth-Century Self-Taught Art from the Collection of Ellin and Baron Gordon" by Ellin Gordon, Barbara L. Luck and Tom Patterson, exhibit catalog for The Abby Aldrich Rockefeller Folk Art Center, 1997. "Let it Shine: Self-Taught Art from the T. Marshall Hahn Collection" by Lynne E. Spriggs, Joanne Cubbs, Lynda Roscoe Hartigan, Susan Mitchell Crawley, Michael E. Shapiro and Peter Harholdt, organized by the High Museum of Art, 2001. "Wos Up Man?" Selections from the Joseph D. and Janet M. Sheen Collection of Self-taught Art" Palmer Museum of Art, 2005.

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