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Wadley, GA Willie Tarver 1932- Concrete environment

Information: Willie Tarver decorates his yard with what he calls "foolin's around with cement". His "foolin's around" ... statues of blacks, cowboys, mermaids and even nursing women, further enlivened with house paint ... were soon discovered by museum curators in Savannah and Atlanta, GA. When Willie learned that others considered him to be an artist, he added small iron welded sculpture to his repertoire because it was lighter in weight and could be transported to art fairs and the like. Willie's wife, Mae helps him make the iron sculptures. Tarvers large concrete sculptures are what serious collectors are looking for ... they are unique and imaginative vision of the people around him .... but these pieces are hard to ship ... so his smaller pieces are usually what is bought. Willie recently suffered a major stroke and is no longer making any new work. He has been included in art shows throughout the South and his work is in the permanent collection of Museums in Savannah and Atlanta and has been shown at the American Visionary Art Museum. America Oh Yes

	Reference / Links:
	Main Street Gallery America Oh Yes Georgia Tourism Checkered House Telfair Museum of Art
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Bibliography: "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. "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, 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.

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