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USA
Appalachia
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Union City, KY
William Lawrence Hawkins
1895-1990
Drawings (pencil, pen, marker, etc.)
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Information:
William Hawkins was of mixed ancestry -- black, white and American Indian -- and said that this heritage was one reason for his talent. He was born in Kentucky, grew up on a farm and moved to Columbus, Ohio, at age 26, where he spent the remainder of his life working a wide variety of jobs, often several at once, ranging from truck driver and plumber to running a whorehouse.
Although Hawkins says that he made and sold art since the 1930s, he seems to have begun art-making in earnest in the 1970s. An inveterate recycler, Hawkins collected cast-offs and assorted odds-and-ends not only for resale to junk dealers and to decorate his home and car, but also to use as art supplies. He scavenged cans of leftover paint and found old boards to work on. He always used a single brush until he had worn down the bristles. At first, he used black, white and gray, with odd touches of whatever color came along.
Considered one of "50 Classic Outsiders", Raw Vision Sourcebook, 2002"
Excerpted from Art Net Magazine
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Bibliography:
Museums, etc.
Anthony Petullo Collection, Milwaukee, WI
American Folk Art Museum, NY
Columbus Museum of Art, Columbus, OH
High Museum of Art, Atlanta, GA
New Orleans Museum of Art, Mew Orleans, LA
Miami University Art Museum, Oxford, OH
Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, DC
References
"Folk Art" Vol 22, No 3, 1997
"Pictured in My Mind", exhibit catalog, 1998
"Self-Taught Artists of the 20th Century", exhibit catalog, 1998
"William Hawkins: Paintings", Manesca and Ricco, 1997
Raw Vision Magazine: "William Hawkins"
"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.
"20th Century American Folk, Self Taught, and Outsider Art" by Betty-Carol Sellen, Cynthia J. Johnson, Neal-Schuman Publishers, New York, 1993.
"Souls Grown Deep: African American vernacular Art of the South", Vol 1, Arnett, et al, 1995.
"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.
"50 Classic Outsiders", Raw Vision Sourcebook, 2002"
"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.
Slotin Folk Art Auction Catalog, Masterpiece Sale, November 4, 2006
"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.
"Wos Up Man?" Selections from the Joseph D. and Janet M. Sheen Collection of Self-taught Art" Palmer Museum of Art, 2005.
"Contemporary Folk Art: Treasures from the Smithsonian American Art Museum" by Tom Patterson, Watson-Guptill Publications/New York, 2001.
"Vernacular Visionaries: International Outsider Art" by Annie Carlano, Caterina Gemma Brenzoni, and Susan Brown McGreevy, Yale University Press, 2003.
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