Sparrow, Simon, 1925-2000
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found: Religious visionaries, 1991:CIP precis (Simon Sparrow; street evangelist & self-taught artist in Madison, Wis.) book p. 26 (b. 1925)
found: "Great and mighty things" : outsider art from the Jill and Sheldon Bonovitz collection, c2013:page 150 (Simon Sparrow; born West Africa, about 1925, to Native American mother and West African father; spent two year with Yoruba people and the rest of his youth on Cherokee reservation in North Carolina; left reservation at about 12 years of age and settled in Philadelphia; enlisted September 8, 1942, in Philadelphia; enlistment records show birth year as 1917 but Sparrow claimed he lied in order to qualify; left military several years later and moved to New York; variety of jobs, including house painter, singer, and cook; moved to Madison, Wisconsin, to be near second wife's family; died September 26, 2000, at home for the elderly in Madison; painted in naturalistic style throughout the 1960s; began to make mixed-media constructions after moving to Madison, 1970s)
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1991-07-23: new
2013-12-06: revised
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