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Vanceburg, KY Charles "Charley" Kinney 1906-1991 Carvings/paintings

Information: He attended school through the 3rd grade. Charley and his brother, Noah, were close. They inherited the family farm in 1950 but "let it go". They were mountain men. Charley fiddled and Noah played guitar. Charley was a natural story teller and he did so through his drawings, water colors and fiddle. His naïve type of telling stories of "haints" (ghosts), butchering, and everyday and special events of mountain people, are raw and refreshing Outsider Folk Art

	Reference / Links:
	Folk Art Society Messenger: The Zetter Collection: "Charles Kinney" Slotin Folk Art Outsider Folk Art Yard Dog Gallery Morehead State University
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Bibliography: Folk Art Society Messenger: "Animals in the Art of Charley & Noah Kinney" "O Appalachia: Artists of the Southern Mountain" by Ramona Lampell and Millard Lampell with David Larkin, Tabori & Chang, publisher, New York, 1989. "Museum of American Folk Art Encyclopedia of Twentieth Century American Folk Art and Artists" by Chuck and Jan Rosenak, Abbeville Press, New York, 1990. Folk Art Messenger, obituary, Fall 1991 "20th Century American Folk, Self Taught, and Outsider Art" by Betty-Carol Sellen, Cynthia J. Johnson, Neal-Schuman Publishers, New York, 1993. "Contemporary American Folk Art - A Collector's Guide" Chuck and Jan Rosenak, Abbeville Press, 1996. "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. "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

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