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Artist
Lonnie Holley
(b. 1950)
Untitled
Date1994
MediumMixed media on paper
DimensionsSight: 24 9/16 × 28 9/16 in. (62.4 × 72.5 cm)
Object numberN0094.1995
Credit LineCollection of the Fenimore Art Museum. Museum Purchase
Photograph by Richard Walker
Label TextLonnie Holley, a man of many myths and talents was born in Jim Crow-era Birmingham, Alabama. Following a chaotic childhood, Holley traveled across the South holding a wide spectrum of jobs—grave digger, cotton picker, and short-order cook at Disney World—before making his first artwork at the age of 29. Self-taught, he started carving sculptures from sandstone and then settled on his preferred material, found objects in the oldest tradition of African American sculpture. Holley has made totemic sculptures from items such as steel scrap, plastic flowers, melted televisions, defunct machines, and crosses, weaving them into narrative sculptures that commemorate places, people, and events. His work is in the collections of major museums and institutions throughout the country.On View
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