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Woodie Long

Alabama (1942-2009)

"Woodie grew up in a family of twelve in a racially mixed sharecropping community in Plant City, Florida. His exuberant, impressionistic paintings conjure up the simple joys of bike riding, jumping on grandma's bed and dancing to dizzied exhaustion with siblings and friends. His paintings express a blissfully uncontrived point of view about racial unity."

Woodie began his memory paintings in 1988. His best works exhibit an inventive use of pattern, color, balance and posture to create a sense of movement which brings them vividly to life. One can just feel the energy.

Perhaps the most infectious appeal of them is that as Mose Tolliver says about his friend, "Woodie is just full of fun".

Woodie Long, 1991
Woodie Long, 1991



George Jacobs Self-Taught Art
formerly Creative Heart Gallery
PO Box 476
Newport, Rhode Island 02840
Phone: 401-847-0991
Fax: 401-847-8498
george@self-taughtart.com


To purchase art, please note the artist and the artwork name and email us at george@self-taughtart.com or call us at (401)847-0991.
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"Musicians"
2006
paper
23 x 35
$1800
"Picking Cotton"
2000
paper
20 x 26
$1,600
"The Big Dance"
2004
wood
31 x 23
$1,500
"Tour de France"
2005
paper
23 x 35
$1500
"Baseball"
1992
paper
18 x 24
24 x 30 frame
$1400
"Sharecropper Houses"
2006
paper
23 x 35
$1400
"Praising"
2003
paper
18 x 23
$1,400
"Bikes"
2005
paper
23 x 35
$1,400
"New York"
2007
paper
13 x 23
$1,200
"Family Reunion"
2003
paper
18 x 24
$1,000
"New York"
2006
framed canvas
20 x 16
$900
"Chickens"
1999
paper
20 x 26
$750
"Angels"
2003
paper
7 x 11
13 x 17 frame
$650
"Bike Riding"
2002
paper
6 x 10
13 x 17 frame
$400