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VISIONARY HELEN LAFRANCE FOLK/OUTSIDER ART/BIBLE browse these categories for related items... All Items: Fine Art:Paintings:Oil:N. America:American: Pre 2000: item # 848485 Please refer to our stock # Leopard when inquiring.
Shelton Gallery and Fine Silver 5133 Harding Road B-10, PMB #392 Nashville TN 37205 (615) 477-6221 Guest Book 7,500.00 |
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| This rare visionary painting by well known folk/outsider artist Helen LaFrance (born Kentucky 1919) depicts the leopard with the lion's head and bear claws from the Book of Daniel. Painted in 1993, the signed oil on canvas is one of a handful of visionary paintings illustrating Bible verses by LaFrance. LHer visionary paintings are a sharp departure from her memory paintings and have never come up again. Dimensions are measures 30 x 40 inches, sight size. It comes in a contemporary blond wood frame. Helen LaFrance is a self-taught black artist who was born in 1919 in Western Kentucky. Her specialty is memory paintings of the disappearing lifestyle of the rural South, although she has painted religious themes and floral studies, usually in oil on canvas. She has painted since she was a small child, always following her mother's wisdom to "paint what you know." Not limited to two-dimensional media, she used to carve wooden animal sculptures and dolls and made wonderful quilts in addition to her memory paintings. LaFrance's work is held in many private collections, including Bryant Gumble and contemporary artist Red Grooms, and museums throughout the United States. She is featured in a chapter of Kathy Moses' reference book, "Outsider Art of the South", published by Schiffer Ltd. | |||||||
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