All artwork photographs shared with the permission of Bessie Harvey’s children. Bessie Harvey was a 20th-century sculptor working with found materials to create multi-media assemblages. The complexity ...

Faye Harvey says her mother began to make art as a stress reliever. “She didn’t know she was an artist,” Harvey said. Her mother, renowned artist Bessie Harvey, was working at Blount Memorial Hospital ...

Editor’s Note: This is part of the 2021/22 Emily Hall Tremaine Journalism Fellowship for Curators, and the second of three posts by the author, the third of which will be an email-only exhibition sent ...

Saturday marked 30 years and two months exactly since renowned artist Bessie Harvey died. An anniversary which might have otherwise passed in quiet solemnity, family and friends gathered at the MLK Jr ...

Sight: 17 1/2 in H x 11 1/2 in W Frame: 26 in H x 19 in W ...

This highly original and thought-provoking film explores a rich vein of visual expression and American individuality through incisive portraits of five contemporary southern folk artists, four of whom ...

IIIF provides researchers rich metadata and media viewing options for comparison of works across cultural heritage collections. Visit the IIIF page to learn more. Folk artist Bessie Harvey with ...