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Henry Speller

Henry Speller was an American artist and blues musician working in Memphis, Tennessee. His style of drawing and painting is characterized by ornate, colorful, intimidating figures which he likened to "characters from Dallas".

Speller is best known for his drawings of detailed houses, modes of transportation (trains, cars, riverboats, and planes), and adorned figures, particularly women. His figures are often white women with angular faces, round breasts made of concentric circles, and exposed genitals with common southern white names, like "Katie Mae" and "Lisa Jean". Through these characters, Speller creates a metaphor for mobility and freedom in the Jim Crow South, which white women, and even some black women, can attain, but are inaccessible to him.

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Date and place of birt:1900, Panther Burn, USA
Date and place of death:1997, Memphis, USA
Nationality:USA
Period of activity: XX century
Specialization:Artist, Graphic artist, Painter
Art style:Primitivism, Folk Art, African-American Art
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