Henry Faulkner Floral Still Life Folk Art Oil Painting, Circa 1975

Item Details

Henry Lawrence Faulkner (Kentucky, 1924–1981)
Floral still life with roses, circa 1975
Oil on hardboard
Signed to lower left
Presented in original artist’s frame.

Faulkner was born in rural Egypt, Kentucky in 1924. An orphan, and listless wanderer, the artist lived a bohemian lifestyle and eventually arrived in Lexington, Kentucky, where he was primarily known. A lifetime of travel took him to Key West, Taormina, Italy, New York, and California where he befriended the likes of Ernest Hemingway, Tennessee Williams, Ezra Pound, and many other literary and artistic dignitaries along the way. Anecdotes abound of his pet goat and oft-recurring subject in his work, Alice, with whom he drove to Florida, took to his gallery openings, and elsewhere. He is remembered as a complicated modernist, who left a body of work in paintings and poetry, and a fond impression by most who met him.

Condition

- minor abrasions and discolorations throughout; abrasions to frame.

Dimensions

- measures frame.

Item #

ITMGN60553