ALVA GENE DEXHIMER FOLK ART OUTSIDER VINTAGE ABE #5 SIGNED Abraham Lincoln

Description: Alva Gene Dexhimer FOLK ARTIST Early Outsider painting ABEAbraham Lincoln portrait ABE #5 10x 15 inches circa 1970's , signedI have a number of portraits by Alva Gene Dexhimer. Some are signed on the back, and some unsigned.I bought them all at the same time. See photo of the group,I also have very early Dexhimers listed on my Ebay Shop, that I purchase about 20 years ago. Alva Gene Dexhimer was born in Clarksburg, Missouri in 1931 and lived in central Missouri his entire life. As a five-year old boy, he fell off a tractor and suffered a severe head injury. This accident led to learning disabilities, which caused him to drop out of school after the eighth grade. Dexhimer constructed in his life time a variety of objects from scrap wood, using only a hammer and a handsaw as tools. He placed these constructions in the yard in front of his trailer in the hope that passersby would purchase some of the work. Comicbooks with a western theme were among his favorites, and movie cowboys like Gene Autry appear in his work. Willem Volkersz , an extensive collector of this genre of work, said that in the early 1980's, he came upon the artist and purchased some work. In 1984, he included Dexheimer's work in FOLK ART/FOR SALE, an exhibition for the Kansas City Art Institute. Shortly thereafter, his work was included in Deliberate Lives - A Celebration of Three Missouri Masters at First Street Forum in St. Louis, Word and Image in American Folk Art (for the Mid-America Arts Alliance) and The Radiant Object--Self-Taught Artists from the Volkersz Collection which was organized by Montana State University. *See photo of some Dexheimer paintings from the Volkersz collection. Dexheimer developed diabetes. Complications from this disease led to a stroke and, several months later, to his death at the age of 52 in 1984 .VISIT MY EBAY STORE TO SEE MORE FOLK ART!Visit My eBay Store: Deep South Vintage Antiques

Price: 235 USD

Location: New Orleans, Louisiana

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