This early painting is an expressive one. Is by ALVA JEAN DEXHEIMER FOLK ARTIST. 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. Comicbooks with a western theme were among his favorites, and movie cowboys like Gene Autry appear in his work. In 1984, he included Dexhimer’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. Complications from this disease led to a stroke and, several months later, to his death at the age of 52 in 1984. The item “ALVA GENE DEXHIMER FOLK ART PAINTING OUTSIDER VINTAGE Lady Dark hair#2″ is in sale since Saturday, July 11, 2020. This item is in the category “Art\Folk Art & Indigenous Art”. The seller is “deepsouthc” and is located in New Orleans, Louisiana. This item can be shipped worldwide.
- Original/Reproduction: Original
- Listed By: Dealer or Reseller
- Signed?: Signed
- Type: Paintings
- Material: Paper & Papier Mache
- Style: Black Folk Art
- Region of Origin: US-Southeast
- Original/ Reproduction: Original
- Size Type/ Largest Dimension: Medium (Up to 30″)
- outsider art: southern folk art
