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SOUTHERN FOLK ART/CHURCH CEMETARY/HELEN LAFRANCE browse these categories for related items... All Items: Fine Art:Paintings:Oil:N. America:American: Pre 2000: item # 911470 Please refer to our stock # HLCemetary when inquiring.
Shelton Gallery and Fine Silver 5133 Harding Road B-10, PMB #392 Nashville TN 37205 (615) 477-6221 Guest Book $3000 |
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| Helen LaFrance painted this evocative oil on canvas depiction of a church with people at the adjacent cemetary. Dimensions are 22 x 38 inches, sight size, and 23 x 29 inches framed. 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." The church was the center of Southern life, complete with birth and death rituals, and life ending at the adjacent graveyard. 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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