Lonnie Holley (Alabama, b. 1950) With Memories in Hand - Behind the Old Door

Description:

Lonnie Holley (Alabama, b. 1950)

With Memories in Hand - Behind the Old Door
Unsigned.
Mixed media assemblage, ht. 42, wd. 16, dp. 7 in.
Condition: Minor losses and damage.

Provenance: Luise Ross Gallery, New York, 1993.

Literature: For information on the artist, see Roger Ricco and Frank Maresca, American Vernacular, New Discoveries in Folk, Self-taught, and Outsider Sculpture (Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 2002),p. 222.

Note: According to the book referenced above, Lonnie was one of twenty-seven children born into a family in Birmingham, Alabama, from which he fled at the age of 14. He started to realize his penchant for making art when he carved a pair of sandstone tombstones for two nieces of his who died in a house fire in 1979.
The Marvill Collection
Estimate $1,000-1,500


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