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Gallery Highlights / Summer 2009

A Special Tribute to Michael Jackson:
Portraits of Michael, the Jackson Family, and Friends
by "Artist Chuckie" Williams

click thumbnails to view full image of reverse side of double-sided paintings

 

 

 

 
Michael with Pepsi / Fish  $2000
½ in chipboard; 36 x 22 ½
ca. 1985-90
 

Michael in red / The Boys  $2000
¼ in fiberboard; 44 x 26
ca. 1985-90

 



 

   
  

 

 

 

 
Michael in yellow / Flowers   $2000
½ in chipboard; 48 x 24
ca. 1985-90
Michael and Madonna / Bobby Brown $1750
1/8 in plywood; 48 x 16
ca. 1985-90
 

 

 

   

 
 Michael and Madonna / Another Bad Creation, $1750
1/4 inch plywood, 24 x 24
ca. 1985-90 
Moon Walk Michael / unfinished drawing of birds, $1500
1/8 inch wood panel, 20 x 33
ca. 1985-90
 
 

 

   

   
Jermaine Jackson (single-sided), $200
posterboard, 14 x 11, unsigned
ca. 1990
Janet Jackson / The Party Machine, $300
posterboard, creased, 28 x 22
ca. 1990
   
 

 

   

 

 
Miss Janet / Sonny and Cher, $500
cardboard, 16 x 15-1/2
ca. 1985-90
Smokey Robinson / Johnny Gill, $400
posterboard (creased), 28 x 22
ca. 1990
 
 

 

   

 
 
Oprah Winfrey / Atlantic Starr, $700
old canvas board, 24 x 18, unsigned
ca. 1990-95
Magic Johnson / unidentified (Cher?), $700
old wood cabinet door, 24 x 18
ca. 1990-95
 

 

 

Upcoming Gallery Highlights

Archive of Past Gallery Highlights
  • Self-Portraits:  Six autobiographical wood panels by Leroy Almon, plus self-portraits by Mose Tolliver, Jack Savitsky, Bernice Sims, Lonnie Holley, Sybil Gibson, and others

  • Paintings and sandstone sculpture by Lonnie Holley

  • Noah's Ark in wood, pottery, and painting

  • Works in bent wire by Vannoy Streeter, Charlie Lucas, Columbus McGriff

  • Birds by Son Ford Thomas, John and Larry Gilley, Willie Massey, Ralph Griffin, Burgess Dulaney

  • December 2004:  Angels by Rev. J.L. Hunter, Howard Finster, Tim Lewis, Fred Webster; Nativity scenes by Mose Tolliver, Lillian Barker, Jewel Starday, Fred Webster;  Santas by Fred Webster, Jimmy Lee Sudduth, Rev. J.L. Hunter

  • January / February 2005:  "The Dream Lives On" Portraits of Martin Luther King, Jr.  by Herbert Singleton, Jimmy Lee Sudduth, Fred Webster, Leroy Almon, Roger Rice, others

  • Spring/Summer 2005:  "Sacred and Profane:  Paintings by Roger Rice and Felix Virgous"

  • Spring 2006:  Works by Albert Freeman and New Drawings by Roger Rice

  • Spring 2007:  Portraits by fourteen outsider artists including Mary T Smith, Chuckie Williams, Sybil Gibson, Ted Gordon, Jack Savitsky, and more


 


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Robert Cargo Folk Art Gallery
Caroline Cargo, Director
110 Darby Road · Paoli, PA  19301
610-240-9528  ·  info@cargofolkart.com
Inquiries welcome.  Open by appointment only.