biography
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| male
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| lived:
| (1854–1947)
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| biography:
| Folk artist and plantation worker, born a slave in Alabama, USA. He worked on a plantation near Selma, AL, until his early 80s. He then moved to Montgomery, where he began drawing the world around him in a bold, primitive, but often strikingly original way. During the next few years he produced over 1000 works, but they were not discovered until the 1980s. His work has since been exhibited around the world. |
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