Henry Faulkner Oil Painting "Bunny, Putti, and Cats"
Item Details
Henry Faulkner (Kentucky/California/Florida, 1924 – 1981)
Bunny, Putti, and Cats
Oil on hardboard
Signed “Faulkner” to lower right
Label from Cincinnati Art Galleries, LLC attached to verso
An exceptional oil painting on board titled Bunny, Putti, and Cats by renowned folk artist Henry Faulkner. This whimsical work features one of Faulkner’s signature botanical subjects of a flowering tree filled with a variety of animals, including the artist’s pet goat Alice pictured in the upper right of the tree. The painting is signed to the lower right.
Faulkner was born in rural Egypt, Kentucky in 1924. An orphan, and listless wanderer, the artist lived a bohemian lifestyle and eventually arrived in Lexington, Kentucky, where he was primarily known. A lifetime of travel took him to Key West, Taormina, Italy, New York, and California where he befriended the likes of Ernest Hemingway, Tennessee Williams, Ezra Pound, and many other literary and artistic dignitaries along the way. Anecdotes abound of his pet goat and oft-recurring subject in his work, Alice, with whom he drove to Florida, took to his gallery openings, and elsewhere. He is remembered as a complicated modernist, who left a body of work in paintings and poetry, and a fond impression by most who met him.
Condition
- vague accretion and a few minor abrasions across painting surface; accretion and minor wear to frame.
Dimensions
- painting measures 19.25" W x 27" H.
Item #
ITMG520350
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