Welmon Sharlhorne

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Welmon Sharlhorne
Born1952 (age 7172)
Houma, Louisiana, U.S.
Other namesWelman Stovall, Welmon Sharlehorne, Uncle Shadow
OccupationVisual artist
Movement Outsider art

Welmon Sharlhorne (born 1952) is an American visual artist. [1] [2] He is self-taught, and is considered an Outsider artist. Sharlhorne is a native of Houma, Louisiana, and has also lived in the French Quarter in New Orleans. [3] He is nicknamed Uncle Shadow, [4] and has gone by the name Welman Stovall. [5]

Biography

Welmon Sharlhorne was born in Houma, Louisiana, he was one of fourteen children born into an African-American family. [6] At the time of his youth, the area was under Jim Crow laws and was racially segregated. [1]

Sharlhorne has spend a significant portion of his life incarcerated and started making drawings while serving time at Louisiana State Penitentiary, where he was released in 1995. [3] His artwork from prison was often created on manila folders. [1] He uses the symbolism of clocks in much of his artwork. [3]

In 2019, Sharlhorne's work was included in the group show What Carried Us Over: Gifts from Gordon W. Bailey Collection among twenty five artists at the Pérez Art Museum Miami. [7]

Sharlhorne's work is in permanent museum collections, including the Pérez Art Museum Miami, [8] Smithsonian American Art Museum, [9] Ogden Museum of Southern Art, [10] Los Angeles County Museum of Art, [11] the African American Museum of Dallas, [12] and the High Museum of Art. [13]

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