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| Size | Approximately 13000 items (26.0 linear feet) |
| Abstract | The Souls Grown Deep Foundation was created with the goal of identifying, documenting, preserving, and promoting the visual art of the African American South. Its work is focused on the "artworks of self-taught African American artists in the southeastern United States." The Souls Grown Deep Foundation was founded by William Arnett, an art historian, scholar, and collector. Since its inception in the 1980s, the foundation has been located in Atlanta, Ga. The collection primarily consists of 35mm color film slides that depict artistic works that are preserved and/or promoted by the Souls Grown Deep Foundation. Some images also depict the artist. Most images were taken and collected by William Arnett. Photographic materials are arranged by artist. The collection also contains video recordings that feature interviews and site visits with African American visual artists. The Addition of December 2017 contains audio and video recordings of interviews, art talks, and music performances. |
| Creator | Souls Grown Deep Foundation. |
| Language | English |
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Historical Information
The Souls Grown Deep Foundation was created with the goal of identifying, documenting, preserving, and promoting the visual art of the African American South. Its work is focused on the "artworks of self-taught African American artists in the southeastern United States." The Souls Grown Deep Foundation was founded by William Arnett, an art historian, scholar, and collector. Since its inception in the 1980s, the foundation has been located in Atlanta, Ga. For more detailed information about the Foundation, see Souls Grown Deep Foundation Website: About.
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The collection primarily consists of 35mm color film slides that depict artistic works that are preserved and/or promoted by the Souls Grown Deep Foundation. Some images also depict the artist. Most images were taken and collected by William Arnett. Materials are arranged by artist. Titles for works are provided when available; untitled works have been grouped and labeled as "Untitled works (#)." The collection also contains video recordings that feature interviews and site visits with African American visual artists, including Thornton Dial, Lonnie Holley, and Ronald Lockett, among others. Video recordings are on Betacam, Betacam SP, VHS, and VHS-C.
The Addition of December 2017 contains audio recordings of interviews, art talks, and music performances, as well as videotape interviews conducted by William Arnett and art historian, Dr. Robert Hobbs. Interviewees include artists, curators, collectors, dealers, journalists, and museum professionals. Audio recordings are on audiocassette, while video recordings are on VHS-C.
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Series 1. Photographic Materials, circa 1982-2004.
Arrangement: Alphabetical by artist
35mm color film slides that depict artistic works that are preserved and/or promoted by the Souls Grown Deep Foundation. Some images also depict the artist. Most images were taken and collected by William Arnett.
Titles for works are provided when available; untitled works have been grouped and labeled as "Untitled works (#)."
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Subseries 1.1. Asberry Davis, circa 1998.
35mm color slides documenting the work of Asberry Davis (1918-2006). Davis, a self-taught artist, was born in S.C. and was a long-time resident of the area around Holly Hill, S.C.
For more detailed biographical information on Asberry Davis, see Souls Grown Deep Foundation Website: Asberry Davis Biography.
Titles for works are provided when available; untitled works have been grouped and labeled as "Untitled works (#)."
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Color 35mm Slide 20491/0001 |
Asberry Davis: Davis with bicycle, circa 1998 #20491, Subseries: "1.1. Asberry Davis, circa 1998." Imagebox 01, C35slide 20491/000117 images Color 35mm Slide |
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Color 35mm Slide 20491/0002 |
Asberry Davis: Davis at home, circa 1998 #20491, Subseries: "1.1. Asberry Davis, circa 1998." Imagebox 01, C35slide 20491/000211 images Color 35mm Slide |
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Color 35mm Slide 20491/0003 |
Asberry Davis: Davis with unidentified cart (1) , circa 1998 #20491, Subseries: "1.1. Asberry Davis, circa 1998." Imagebox 01, C35slide 20491/00032 images Color 35mm Slide Notes from Davis (From: Souls Grown Deep: African American Vernacular Art of the South, Volume 2): "All my bicycles and carts, they end up here in the yard when I can't use them no more. I decorate them, give them the respect for the work they done for me. I put it out here and just build it. The cloth strapped to it is stuff that once rode on it." |
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Color 35mm Slide 20491/0004 |
Asberry Davis: Unidentified cart (1), circa 1998 #20491, Subseries: "1.1. Asberry Davis, circa 1998." Imagebox 01, C35slide 20491/00045 images Color 35mm Slide Notes from Davis (From: Souls Grown Deep: African American Vernacular Art of the South, Volume 2): "All my bicycles and carts, they end up here in the yard when I can't use them no more. I decorate them, give them the respect for the work they done for me. I put it out here and just build it. The cloth strapped to it is stuff that once rode on it." |
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Color 35mm Slide 20491/0005 |
Asberry Davis: Davis with unidentified cart (2) , circa 1998 #20491, Subseries: "1.1. Asberry Davis, circa 1998." Imagebox 01, C35slide 20491/00052 images Color 35mm Slide Original numbering on slide: ASD-22 Notes from Davis (From: Souls Grown Deep: African American Vernacular Art of the South, Volume 2): "All my bicycles and carts, they end up here in the yard when I can't use them no more. I decorate them, give them the respect for the work they done for me. I put it out here and just build it. The cloth strapped to it is stuff that once rode on it." |
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Color 35mm Slide 20491/0006 |
Asberry Davis: Unidentified cart (2), circa 1998 #20491, Subseries: "1.1. Asberry Davis, circa 1998." Imagebox 01, C35slide 20491/00067 images Color 35mm Slide Notes from Davis (From: Souls Grown Deep: African American Vernacular Art of the South, Volume 2): "All my bicycles and carts, they end up here in the yard when I can't use them no more. I decorate them, give them the respect for the work they done for me. I put it out here and just build it. The cloth strapped to it is stuff that once rode on it." |
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Color 35mm Slide 20491/0007 |
Asberry Davis: Davis wearing bracelet, circa 1998 #20491, Subseries: "1.1. Asberry Davis, circa 1998." Imagebox 01, C35slide 20491/00073 images Color 35mm Slide Bracelet is identified on Souls Grown Deep website; ASDX-3; Notes from Davis (From: Souls Grown Deep: African American Vernacular Art of the South, Volume 2): "I got this bracelet set I wear every day. This here, this iron one right here, is a German steel; you can't cut it with a blowtorch. The rest is rubber-hard rubber." |
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Color 35mm Slide 20491/0008 |
Asberry Davis: Davis with untitled work (1), circa 1998 #20491, Subseries: "1.1. Asberry Davis, circa 1998." Imagebox 01, C35slide 20491/00083 images Color 35mm Slide |
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Color 35mm Slide 20491/0009 |
Asberry Davis: Untitled work (1), circa 1998 #20491, Subseries: "1.1. Asberry Davis, circa 1998." Imagebox 01, C35slide 20491/00093 images Color 35mm Slide |
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Color 35mm Slide 20491/0010 |
Asberry Davis: Davis with untitled work (2), circa 1998 #20491, Subseries: "1.1. Asberry Davis, circa 1998." Imagebox 01, C35slide 20491/00106 images Color 35mm Slide Original numbering on slide: ASDX-18; Notes from Davis (From: Souls Grown Deep: African American Vernacular Art of the South, Volume 2): Asberry Davis and one of his "pulling rigs" used in contests of strength he has devised. |
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Color 35mm Slide 20491/0011 |
Asberry Davis: Untitled work (2), circa 1998 #20491, Subseries: "1.1. Asberry Davis, circa 1998." Imagebox 01, C35slide 20491/00114 images Color 35mm Slide |
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Color 35mm Slide 20491/0012 |
Asberry Davis: Davis with untitled work (3), circa 1998 #20491, Subseries: "1.1. Asberry Davis, circa 1998." Imagebox 01, C35slide 20491/00124 images Color 35mm Slide |
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Color 35mm Slide 20491/0013 |
Asberry Davis: Untitled work (3), circa 1998 #20491, Subseries: "1.1. Asberry Davis, circa 1998." Imagebox 01, C35slide 20491/001315 images Color 35mm Slide Notes from Davis (From: Souls Grown Deep: African American Vernacular Art of the South, Volume 2): "I got this barber chair turned upside down. The barber had decided to get a new one, this one had gotten raggedy. I got it from him and decorated it with all these colors of scrap cloth, changed the total of it from one thing to another." |
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Asberry Davis: Asberry Davis with untitled work (4), circa 1998 #20491, Subseries: "1.1. Asberry Davis, circa 1998." Imagebox 01, C35slide 20491/00143 images Color 35mm Slide |
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Asberry Davis: Untitled work (4), circa 1998 #20491, Subseries: "1.1. Asberry Davis, circa 1998." Imagebox 01, C35slide 20491/00155 images Color 35mm Slide Notes from Davis (From: Souls Grown Deep: African American Vernacular Art of the South, Volume 2): "I put this place as a place people can come and sit if they want to. Now I do my talking right aside the road. I never have no regular services. I made that place to talk from, that pulpit-looking thing, out of this old bicycle cart. I got this Pepsi cooler chained to the top, and I just put the other stuff, the rags, rubber, the bucket, and chains, and the bottle, and the drain pipe. The bottle is for antifreeze. The rags come from clothes. I used to carry on the bicycle to the wash. The bucket is to put my different instruments in. Wheels come off a farm machine, something like a stump-cutter machine, which rolls easy, designed to carry seven hundred pounds. Over in the bushes there, that's the old altar thing put out here first. It's a big hay-rack wheels turned up, which I fixed the other stuff to. It got gasoline cans, some iron rods, a truck rim, and a hubcap, and a reflector light, and some other stuff. Now back in there I got a special place fixed up with these chairs and that red stool. I picked up that stool off an old junkyard; had it in here for about thirty years, maybe longer. That thing standing next to the chair come from the same junkyard. The rod come from a shopping cart, the bucket, is my own old bucket. That piece of iron on the tree is off a hay-rack seat. I found me that half part of some ice tongs and painted it white and screwed it in. The chain connects that to the stool." |
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Color 35mm Slide 20491/0016 |
Asberry Davis: Asberry Davis with "Ice Cream Truck and bicycle," circa 1998 #20491, Subseries: "1.1. Asberry Davis, circa 1998." Imagebox 01, C35slide 20491/00161 image Color 35mm Slide Notes from Davis (From: Souls Grown Deep: African American Vernacular Art of the South, Volume 2): This work also served as Davis's home until 1998 when it was destroyed by burglars. |
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Asberry Davis: "Ice Cream Truck and bicycle," circa 1998 #20491, Subseries: "1.1. Asberry Davis, circa 1998." Imagebox 01, C35slide 20491/00174 images Color 35mm Slide |
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Asberry Davis: Ella Riley's grave(site) (1), circa 1998 #20491, Subseries: "1.1. Asberry Davis, circa 1998." Imagebox 01, C35slide 20491/001823 images Color 35mm Slide Original numbering on slide: ASDX-31; ASDX-32; ASDX-33; ASDX-34; ASDX-50; ASDX-51; ASDX-52 |
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Color 35mm Slide 20491/3130 |
Asberry Davis: Ella Riley's Grave (2), circa 1990s " #20491, Subseries: "1.1. Asberry Davis, circa 1998." Imagebox 14, C35slide 20491/31301 image Color 35mm Slide Original numbering on slide: ASD-40 Photograph by Skot Garrick See also 20491/0018 |
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Asberry Davis: Untitled work (5), circa 1998 #20491, Subseries: "1.1. Asberry Davis, circa 1998." Imagebox 01, C35slide 20491/002016 images Color 35mm Slide Original numbering on slide: ASDX-69; Notes from Davis (From: Souls Grown Deep: African American Vernacular Art of the South, Volume 2): "The trees in here is important to me. There is a very old sycamore. I was here forty years and the tree was the same size back when I come. I got this motorcycle tire up on that tree. And this old rug for riding horses. A man put it on the old horse's back to keep it from getting saddle scratches. The old cook pot be hanging beside it. I got some equipment in there, the water jug, a piece of dog leash, some broken stuff, and that bone, it come from a thing like an alligator, no not alligator, well we call it a "cooter" You call it I think a turtle. On the other side is this old junk-can, put over this rotten stump that grew out of the sycamore but is hardly surviving. I put this bottle, motor-oil bottle, and one of my rubber collars, in the can. All of this is something I have put up for the old tree. The younger sycamore tree next to it was planted two days after John Kennedy got assassinated. Me and another man planted it, honoring Kennedy. It growed that big in them many years." |
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Color 35mm Slide 20491/3131 |
Asberry Davis: Untitled work (5), 1998 " #20491, Subseries: "1.1. Asberry Davis, circa 1998." Imagebox 14, C35slide 20491/31312 images Color 35mm Slide See also 20491/0020 |
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Color 35mm Slide 20491/0021 |
Asberry Davis: Untitled work (6), circa 1998 #20491, Subseries: "1.1. Asberry Davis, circa 1998." Imagebox 01, C35slide 20491/00217 images Color 35mm Slide Original numbering on slide: ASDX-58 |
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Asberry Davis: Untitled work (6), 1998 " #20491, Subseries: "1.1. Asberry Davis, circa 1998." Imagebox 14, C35slide 20491/31322 images Color 35mm Slide Original numbering on slide: ASD-23 See also 20491/0021 |
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Color 35mm Slide 20491/0022 |
Asberry Davis: Untitled work (7), circa 1998 #20491, Subseries: "1.1. Asberry Davis, circa 1998." Imagebox 01, C35slide 20491/00225 images Color 35mm Slide Original numbering on slide: ASDX-11; Notes from Davis (From: Souls Grown Deep: African American Vernacular Art of the South, Volume 2): "See I tie things up to my fences and to my trees. It look funny to some people. I got a heater hose on that fence. It could be for a water house or air house that's what it have been and wrapped with rubber, tied and fixed with wood, and painted. It's about wore-out now, been on that fence a long time, falling apart now. Got that electric light-bulb holder, hold a bulb in every direction." |
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Asberry Davis: Untitled work (8), circa 1998 #20491, Subseries: "1.1. Asberry Davis, circa 1998." Imagebox 01, C35slide 20491/00237 images Color 35mm Slide Original numbering on slide: ASDX-15 |
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Asberry Davis: Untitled work (8), 1998 " #20491, Subseries: "1.1. Asberry Davis, circa 1998." Imagebox 14, C35slide 20491/31334 images Color 35mm Slide See also 20491/0023 |
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Asberry Davis: Untitled work (9), circa 1998 #20491, Subseries: "1.1. Asberry Davis, circa 1998." Imagebox 01, C35slide 20491/00243 images Color 35mm Slide Original numbering on slide: ASDX-27; ASDX-28 |
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Asberry Davis: Untitled work (10), circa 1998 #20491, Subseries: "1.1. Asberry Davis, circa 1998." Imagebox 01, C35slide 20491/00252 images Color 35mm Slide Original numbering on slide: ASDX-16; Notes from Davis (From: Souls Grown Deep: African American Vernacular Art of the South, Volume 2): "I got some big old wheels here that the old deacon used. He said they were timber-cart wheels. Heavy iron too. About, I say, 150 years old. I got to them just in time and saved them from being scrapped. Wrapped those two iron rods and put with it. The red seats on the ground came from an old labor bus. I just like to put things together things that look funny or strange, that's all" |
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Asberry Davis: Untitled work (11), circa 1998 #20491, Subseries: "1.1. Asberry Davis, circa 1998." Imagebox 01, C35slide 20491/002616 images Color 35mm Slide Notes from Davis (From: Souls Grown Deep: African American Vernacular Art of the South, Volume 2): "I put this place as a place people can come and sit if they want to. Now I do my talking right aside the road. I never have no regular services. I made that place to talk from, that pulpit-looking thing, out of this old bicycle cart. I got this Pepsi cooler chained to the top, and I just put the other stuff, the rags, rubber, the bucket, and chains, and the bottle, and the drain pipe. The bottle is for antifreeze. The rags come from clothes. I used to carry on the bicycle to the wash. The bucket is to put my different instruments in. Wheels come off a farm machine, something like a stump-cutter machine, which rolls easy, designed to carry seven hundred pounds. Over in the bushes there, that's the old altar thing put out here first. It's a big hay-rack wheels turned up, which I fixed the other stuff to. It got gasoline cans, some iron rods, a truck rim, and a hubcap, and a reflector light, and some other stuff. Now back in there I got a special place fixed up with these chairs and that red stool. I picked up that stool off an old junkyard; had it in here for about thirty years, maybe longer. That thing standing next to the chair come from the same junkyard. The rod come from a shopping cart, the bucket, is my own old bucket. That piece of iron on the tree is off a hay-rack seat. I found me that half part of some ice tongs and painted it white and screwed it in. The chain connects that to the stool." |
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Color 35mm Slide 20491/3134 |
Asberry Davis: Untitled work (11), 1998 " #20491, Subseries: "1.1. Asberry Davis, circa 1998." Imagebox 14, C35slide 20491/31343 images Color 35mm Slide See also 20491/0026 |
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Asberry Davis: Untitled work (12), circa 1998 #20491, Subseries: "1.1. Asberry Davis, circa 1998." Imagebox 01, C35slide 20491/00274 images Color 35mm Slide |
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Asberry Davis: Untitled work (13), circa 1998 #20491, Subseries: "1.1. Asberry Davis, circa 1998." Imagebox 01, C35slide 20491/00282images Color 35mm Slide |
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Asberry Davis: Untitled work (14), circa 1998 #20491, Subseries: "1.1. Asberry Davis, circa 1998." Imagebox 01, C35slide 20491/00292 images Color 35mm Slide Original numbering on slide: ASDX-55 |
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Asberry Davis: Untitled work (15), circa 1998 #20491, Subseries: "1.1. Asberry Davis, circa 1998." Imagebox 01, C35slide 20491/00303 images Color 35mm Slide Original numbering on slide: ASDX-6; Notes from Davis (From: Souls Grown Deep: African American Vernacular Art of the South, Volume 2): "Belt assembly" hanging in tree |
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Asberry Davis: Untitled work (16), circa 1998 #20491, Subseries: "1.1. Asberry Davis, circa 1998." Imagebox 01, C35slide 20491/00313 images Color 35mm Slide Original numbering on slide: ASDX-70 |
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Asberry Davis: Untitled work (16), 1998 " #20491, Subseries: "1.1. Asberry Davis, circa 1998." Imagebox 14, C35slide 20491/31352 images Color 35mm Slide See also 20491/0031 and 20491/0032 |
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Asberry Davis: Untitled work (17), circa 1998 #20491, Subseries: "1.1. Asberry Davis, circa 1998." Imagebox 01, C35slide 20491/00323 images Color 35mm Slide |
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Asberry Davis: Untitled work (18), circa 1998 #20491, Subseries: "1.1. Asberry Davis, circa 1998." Imagebox 01, C35slide 20491/00332 images Color 35mm Slide Original numbering on slide: ASDX-61 |
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Asberry Davis: Untitled work (19), circa 1998 #20491, Subseries: "1.1. Asberry Davis, circa 1998." Imagebox 01, C35slide 20491/00345 images Color 35mm Slide |
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Asberry Davis: Untitled work (20), circa 1998 #20491, Subseries: "1.1. Asberry Davis, circa 1998." Imagebox 01, C35slide 20491/00353 images Color 35mm Slide |
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Asberry Davis: Untitled work (21), circa 1998 #20491, Subseries: "1.1. Asberry Davis, circa 1998." Imagebox 01, C35slide 20491/00363 images Color 35mm Slide |
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Asberry Davis: Untitled work (22), circa 1998 #20491, Subseries: "1.1. Asberry Davis, circa 1998." Imagebox 01, C35slide 20491/00372 images Color 35mm Slide |
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Asberry Davis: Untitled work (23), circa 1998 #20491, Subseries: "1.1. Asberry Davis, circa 1998." Imagebox 01, C35slide 20491/00382 images Color 35mm Slide Original numbering on slide: ASDX-19 |
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Asberry Davis: Untitled work (24), circa 1998 #20491, Subseries: "1.1. Asberry Davis, circa 1998." Imagebox 01, C35slide 20491/00392 images Color 35mm Slide |
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Asberry Davis: Untitled work (25), circa 1998 #20491, Subseries: "1.1. Asberry Davis, circa 1998." Imagebox 01, C35slide 20491/00402 images Color 35mm Slide Original numbering on slide: ASDX-5 |
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Asberry Davis: Untitled work (26), circa 1998 #20491, Subseries: "1.1. Asberry Davis, circa 1998." Imagebox 01, C35slide 20491/00412 images Color 35mm Slide |
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Asberry Davis: Untitled work (27), circa 1998 #20491, Subseries: "1.1. Asberry Davis, circa 1998." Imagebox 01, C35slide 20491/00422 images Color 35mm Slide Original numbering on slide: ASDX-9 |
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Asberry Davis: Untitled work (28), circa 1998 #20491, Subseries: "1.1. Asberry Davis, circa 1998." Imagebox 01, C35slide 20491/00432 images Color 35mm Slide Original numbering on slide: ASDX-63 |
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Asberry Davis: Untitled work (29), circa 1998 #20491, Subseries: "1.1. Asberry Davis, circa 1998." Imagebox 01, C35slide 20491/00441 image Color 35mm Slide Original numbering on slide: ASDX-7 |
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Asberry Davis: Untitled work (30), circa 1998 #20491, Subseries: "1.1. Asberry Davis, circa 1998." Imagebox 01, C35slide 20491/00451 image Color 35mm Slide Original numbering on slide: ASDX-56 |
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Asberry Davis: Untitled work (30), 1998 " #20491, Subseries: "1.1. Asberry Davis, circa 1998." Imagebox 14, C35slide 20491/31362 images Color 35mm Slide See also 20491/0045 |
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Asberry Davis: Untitled work (31), circa 1998 #20491, Subseries: "1.1. Asberry Davis, circa 1998." Imagebox 01, C35slide 20491/00461 image Color 35mm Slide |
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Asberry Davis: Untitled work (31), 1998 " #20491, Subseries: "1.1. Asberry Davis, circa 1998." Imagebox 14, C35slide 20491/31371 image Color 35mm Slide See also 20491/0046 |
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Asberry Davis: Untitled work (32), circa 1998 #20491, Subseries: "1.1. Asberry Davis, circa 1998." Imagebox 01, C35slide 20491/00471 image Color 35mm Slide Original numbering on slide: ASDX-62 |
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Asberry Davis: Untitled work (33), circa 1998 #20491, Subseries: "1.1. Asberry Davis, circa 1998." Imagebox 01, C35slide 20491/00481 image Color 35mm Slide Original numbering on slide: ASDX-4 |
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Asberry Davis: Untitled work (34), circa 1998 #20491, Subseries: "1.1. Asberry Davis, circa 1998." Imagebox 01, C35slide 20491/00492 images Color 35mm Slide Original numbering on slide: ASDX-59; ASDX-60 |
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Asberry Davis: Untitled work (35), circa 1998 #20491, Subseries: "1.1. Asberry Davis, circa 1998." Imagebox 01, C35slide 20491/00501 image Color 35mm Slide |
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Asberry Davis: Untitled work (36), circa 1998 #20491, Subseries: "1.1. Asberry Davis, circa 1998." Imagebox 04, C35slide 20491/08581 image Color 35mm Slide |
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Asberry Davis: Untitled work (37), circa 1998 #20491, Subseries: "1.1. Asberry Davis, circa 1998." Imagebox 04, C35slide 20491/08591 image Color 35mm Slide |
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Asberry Davis: Untitled work (38), circa 1998 #20491, Subseries: "1.1. Asberry Davis, circa 1998." Imagebox 04, C35slide 20491/08601 image Color 35mm Slide |
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Asberry Davis: Untitled work (39), circa 1998 #20491, Subseries: "1.1. Asberry Davis, circa 1998." Imagebox 04, C35slide 20491/08601 image Color 35mm Slide |
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Asberry Davis: Group of untitled work, circa 1998 #20491, Subseries: "1.1. Asberry Davis, circa 1998." Imagebox 01, C35slide 20491/00515 images Color 35mm Slide Includes view of three works. Notes from Davis (From: Souls Grown Deep: African American Vernacular Art of the South, Volume 2): "This place where the church used to be, the old temple (it was a large thing), and the praying space, the altar, all of it, right here where I done put my stuff now. This place been a praying place since slave times." |
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Asberry Davis: Untitled bike (1), circa 1998 #20491, Subseries: "1.1. Asberry Davis, circa 1998." Imagebox 01, C35slide 20491/00524 images Color 35mm Slide Notes from Davis (From: Souls Grown Deep: African American Vernacular Art of the South, Volume 2): "All my bicycles and carts, they end up here in the yard when I can't use them no more. I decorate them, give them the respect for the work they done for me. I put it out here and just build it. The cloth strapped to it is stuff that once rode on it." |
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Color 35mm Slide 20491/0053 |
Asberry Davis: Untitled bike (2), circa 1998 #20491, Subseries: "1.1. Asberry Davis, circa 1998." Imagebox 01, C35slide 20491/00533 images Color 35mm Slide Original numbering on slide: ASDX-21; Notes from Davis (From: Souls Grown Deep: African American Vernacular Art of the South, Volume 2): "All my bicycles and carts, they end up here in the yard when I can't use them no more. I decorate them, give them the respect for the work they done for me. I put it out here and just build it. The cloth strapped to it is stuff that once rode on it." |
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Color 35mm Slide 20491/0054 |
Asberry Davis: Untitled bike (3), circa 1998 #20491, Subseries: "1.1. Asberry Davis, circa 1998." Imagebox 01, C35slide 20491/00542 images Color 35mm Slide Original numbering on slide: ASDX-24; Notes from Davis (From: Souls Grown Deep: African American Vernacular Art of the South, Volume 2): "All my bicycles and carts, they end up here in the yard when I can't use them no more. I decorate them, give them the respect for the work they done for me. I put it out here and just build it. The cloth strapped to it is stuff that once rode on it." |
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Color 35mm Slide 20491/0055 |
Asberry Davis: Untitled bike (4), circa 1998 #20491, Subseries: "1.1. Asberry Davis, circa 1998." Imagebox 01, C35slide 20491/00552 images Color 35mm Slide Original numbering on slide: ASDX-66; Notes from Davis (From: Souls Grown Deep: African American Vernacular Art of the South, Volume 2): "All my bicycles and carts, they end up here in the yard when I can't use them no more. I decorate them, give them the respect for the work they done for me. I put it out here and just build it. The cloth strapped to it is stuff that once rode on it." |
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Color 35mm Slide 20491/3138 |
Asberry Davis: Untitled bike (4), 1998 " #20491, Subseries: "1.1. Asberry Davis, circa 1998." Imagebox 14, C35slide 20491/31381 image Color 35mm Slide See also 20491/0055 |
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Asberry Davis: Untitled bike (5), circa 1998 #20491, Subseries: "1.1. Asberry Davis, circa 1998." Imagebox 01, C35slide 20491/00561 image Color 35mm Slide Original numbering on slide: ASDX-67; Notes from Davis (From: Souls Grown Deep: African American Vernacular Art of the South, Volume 2) "All my bicycles and carts, they end up here in the yard when I can't use them no more. I decorate them, give them the respect for the work they done for me. I put it out here and just build it. The cloth strapped to it is stuff that once rode on it." |
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Color 35mm Slide 20491/3139 |
Asberry Davis: Untitled bike (5), 1998 " #20491, Subseries: "1.1. Asberry Davis, circa 1998." Imagebox 14, C35slide 20491/31391 image Color 35mm Slide See also 20491/0056 |
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Color 35mm Slide 20491/0057 |
Asberry Davis: Untitled bike (6), circa 1998 #20491, Subseries: "1.1. Asberry Davis, circa 1998." Imagebox 01, C35slide 20491/00571 image Color 35mm Slide Notes from Davis (From: Souls Grown Deep: African American Vernacular Art of the South, Volume 2): "All my bicycles and carts, they end up here in the yard when I can't use them no more. I decorate them, give them the respect for the work they done for me. I put it out here and just build it. The cloth strapped to it is stuff that once rode on it." |
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Color 35mm Slide 20491/0058 |
Asberry Davis: Untitled bike (7), circa 1998 #20491, Subseries: "1.1. Asberry Davis, circa 1998." Imagebox 01, C35slide 20491/00581 image Color 35mm Slide Notes from Davis (From: Souls Grown Deep: African American Vernacular Art of the South, Volume 2): "All my bicycles and carts, they end up here in the yard when I can't use them no more. I decorate them, give them the respect for the work they done for me. I put it out here and just build it. The cloth strapped to it is stuff that once rode on it." |
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Color 35mm Slide 20491/0059 |
Asberry Davis: Untitled bike (8), circa 1998 #20491, Subseries: "1.1. Asberry Davis, circa 1998." Imagebox 01, C35slide 20491/00591 image Color 35mm Slide Notes from Davis (From: Souls Grown Deep: African American Vernacular Art of the South, Volume 2): "All my bicycles and carts, they end up here in the yard when I can't use them no more. I decorate them, give them the respect for the work they done for me. I put it out here and just build it. The cloth strapped to it is stuff that once rode on it." |
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Asberry Davis: Untitled bike (9), circa 1998 #20491, Subseries: "1.1. Asberry Davis, circa 1998." Imagebox 01, C35slide 20491/00601 image Color 35mm Slide Original numbering on slide: ASDX-57; Notes from Davis (From: Souls Grown Deep: African American Vernacular Art of the South, Volume 2): "All my bicycles and carts, they end up here in the yard when I can't use them no more. I decorate them, give them the respect for the work they done for me. I put it out here and just build it. The cloth strapped to it is stuff that once rode on it." |
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Color 35mm Slide 20491/3140 |
Asberry Davis: Untitled bike (9), 1998 " #20491, Subseries: "1.1. Asberry Davis, circa 1998." Imagebox 14, C35slide 20491/31401 image Color 35mm Slide See also 20491/0060 |
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Asberry Davis: Untitled bike (10), circa 1998 #20491, Subseries: "1.1. Asberry Davis, circa 1998." Imagebox 01, C35slide 20491/00611 image Color 35mm Slide Notes from Davis (From: Souls Grown Deep: African American Vernacular Art of the South, Volume 2): "All my bicycles and carts, they end up here in the yard when I can't use them no more. I decorate them, give them the respect for the work they done for me. I put it out here and just build it. The cloth strapped to it is stuff that once rode on it." |
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Color 35mm Slide 20491/3141 |
Asberry Davis: Untitled bike (10), 1998 " #20491, Subseries: "1.1. Asberry Davis, circa 1998." Imagebox 14, C35slide 20491/31415 images Color 35mm Slide Image appears on page 257 of Souls Grown Deep: African American Vernacular Art of the South, Volume Two See also 20491/0061 |
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Color 35mm Slide 20491/0862 |
Asberry Davis: Untitled bike (11), circa 1998 #20491, Subseries: "1.1. Asberry Davis, circa 1998." Imagebox 04, C35slide 20491/08621 image Color 35mm Slide |
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Asberry Davis: Untitled bike (12), circa 1998 #20491, Subseries: "1.1. Asberry Davis, circa 1998." Imagebox 04, C35slide 20491/08631 image Color 35mm Slide |
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Color 35mm Slide 20491/3127 |
Asberry Davis: Untitled cart (1), 1998 " #20491, Subseries: "1.1. Asberry Davis, circa 1998." Imagebox 14, C35slide 20491/31271 image Color 35mm Slide Image appears on page 257 of Souls Grown Deep: African American Vernacular Art of the South, Volume Two See also 20491/0003 and 20491/0004 |
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Asberry Davis: Untitled cart (2), 1998 " #20491, Subseries: "1.1. Asberry Davis, circa 1998." Imagebox 14, C35slide 20491/31283 images Color 35mm Slide See also 20491/0005 and 20491/0006 |
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Asberry Davis: Untitled cart (3), circa 1998 #20491, Subseries: "1.1. Asberry Davis, circa 1998." Imagebox 01, C35slide 20491/001926 images Color 35mm Slide Original numbering on slide: ASD-25; ASD-26; ASDX-54; Notes from Davis (From: Souls Grown Deep: African American Vernacular Art of the South, Volume 2): "I put this place as a place people can come and sit if they want to. Now I do my talking right aside the road. I never have no regular services. I made that place to talk from, that pulpit-looking thing, out of this old bicycle cart. I got this Pepsi cooler chained to the top, and I just put the other stuff, the rags, rubber, the bucket, and chains, and the bottle, and the drain pipe. The bottle is for antifreeze. The rags come from clothes. I used to carry on the bicycle to the wash. The bucket is to put my different instruments in. Wheels come off a farm machine, something like a stump-cutter machine, which rolls easy, designed to carry seven hundred pounds. Over in the bushes there, that's the old altar thing put out here first. It's a big hay-rack wheels turned up, which I fixed the other stuff to. It got gasoline cans, some iron rods, a truck rim, and a hubcap, and a reflector light, and some other stuff. Now back in there I got a special place fixed up with these chairs and that red stool. I picked up that stool off an old junkyard; had it in here for about thirty years, maybe longer. That thing standing next to the chair come from the same junkyard. The rod come from a shopping cart, the bucket, is my own old bucket. That piece of iron on the tree is off a hay-rack seat. I found me that half part of some ice tongs and painted it white and screwed it in. The chain connects that to the stool." |
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Asberry Davis: Untitled cart (4), 1998 " #20491, Subseries: "1.1. Asberry Davis, circa 1998." Imagebox 14, C35slide 20491/31292 images Color 35mm Slide See also 20491/0014 and 20491/0015 |
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Asberry Davis: Davis by the Congaree River, circa 1998 #20491, Subseries: "1.1. Asberry Davis, circa 1998." Imagebox 04, C35slide 20491/085716 images Color 35mm Slide Written on slide: "Congeree (sic) R./Asberry Davis" |
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Asberry Davis: Printed materials from publication of Souls Grown Deep Volume 2, circa 2001 #20491, Subseries: "1.1. Asberry Davis, circa 1998." Imagebox 20, Folder 20491/3492Printed Materials |
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Subseries 1.2. Ronald Lockett, circa 1987-1997.
35mm color slides documenting the work of Ronald Lockett (1965-1998). Lockett, a self-taught artist, was born in Bessemer, Ala., where he lived his entire life.
For more detailed biographical information on Ronald Lockett, see Souls Grown Deep Foundation Website: Ronald Lockett Biography.
Titles for works are provided when available; untitled works have been grouped and labeled as "Untitled works (#)."
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Subseries 1.3. Lonnie Holley, 1987-2001.
35mm color slides documenting the work of Lonnie Holley (1950-). Holley, a self-taught artist, was born in Birmingham, Ala. He currently resides in Atlanta, Ga.
For more detailed biographical information on Lonnie Holley, see Souls Grown Deep Foundation Website: Lonnie Holley Biography
Titles for works are provided when available; untitled works have been grouped and labeled as "Untitled works (#)."
Images labeled as "Environment (#)" depict the clearing of Lonnie Holley's property due to expansion of Birmingham International Airport in 1997-1998.
Titles followed by "(YEAR)" indicate the year that the work was created or photographed. Holley created works with the same tittle or made alterations an existing work over time.