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ID: 500034957
Page Link: http://vocab.getty.edu/page/ulan/500034957

 

Record Type: Person
Butler, David (American sculptor and folk artist, 1898-1997)

Note: Butler worked as a child with his father in a Louisiana box factory where he built small wooden sculptures in his spare time. After leaving the factory, he began a career working in tin and used materials to create colorful sculptures of flowers and figures.

Names:
Butler, David (preferred,V,index)
David Butler (V,display)
The Tin Man (V)

Nationalities:
American (preferred)
African American

Roles:
artist (preferred)
sculptor
folk artist

Gender: male

Birth and Death Places:
Born:  Saint Mary parish (Louisiana, United States) (parish (political))

Events:
active:   Patterson (Saint Mary parish, Louisiana, United States) (inhabited place)

List/Hierarchical Position:
 ....  Persons, Artists
 ........  Butler, David (I)

Biographies:
(American sculptor and folk artist, 1898-1997) ..... [VP Preferred]
(American sculptor, b.1898) ..... [BHA]
(American sculptor, born 1898 in Saint Mary county, Louisiana) ..... [VP]

Additional Names:

Sources and Contributors:
Butler, David ........ [BHA Preferred, VP Preferred]
............................  Gordon, Flying Free (1997) 96
David Butler ........ [VP]
..........................  Lewis, African American Art and Artists (2003) 112
The Tin Man ........ [VP]
.......................  Lewis, African American Art and Artists (2003) 112

Subject: ........ [BHA, Gallery Systems, VP]
....................  Fagaly, David Butler (1976)
....................  Gallery Systems (2000-) LOC ID: n2006162451
....................  Gordon, Flying Free (1997) 96
....................  Lewis, African American Art and Artists (2003) 112-113; 112
....................  Library of Congress Authorities data (n.d.) LOC ID: n2006162451
....................  Sellen and Johanson, 20th Century American Folk (1993) 331
 
Note:
English .......... [VP]
.......... Lewis, African American Art and Artists (2003) 112-113
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