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Tintop, AL Juanita Rogers 1934-1985 Paintings

Information: Born May 12, l934 in the rural community of Tintop, Alabama, Juanita Rogers began "making mud" at an early age. Living in a small wooden house without benefit of running water, isolated, and without access to conventional art materials, she first used animal bones, mud and found objects to create fanciful creatures she called "funny brick." Her house was filled with these creations, when she was discovered by Anton Haardt in the early 1980's. Juanita never married or had children. When her art was discovered, she was ill with a cancerous tumor. Haardt provided Juanita with drawing materials and the encouragement to experiment. Her works on paper became an interpretation of her surroundings, a curious blend drawn from TV and her vivid imagination. Juanita created around 300 works before she died on January 26, l985. Marcia Weber Gallery: "Juanita Rogers"

	Reference / Links:
	Marcia Weber Gallery: "Juanita Rogers" Anton Haardt Gallery (under Artists): "Juanita Rogers" The Zetter Collection: "Juanita Rogers". MUD WOMAN: The Juanita Rogers Story Visionary Art Slotin Folk 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. "Museum of American Folk Art Encyclopedia of Twentieth Century American Folk Art and Artists" by Chuck and Jan Rosenak, Abbeville Press, New York, 1990. "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. "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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