U.S Folk Art

Willie White was born in Natchez, Mississippi.  He learned to draw while working in the 1960's as a nightclub janitor on Canal Street in New Orleans, where he has now lived for many years. 

White's inspiration is television images and movies of distant places.  With simple shapes and bold colors drawn in bright markers on posterboard, he paints a variety of subjects:  prehistoric creatures,  strange animals, and birds; the earth, moon, and stars; religious images, houses, cactuses. 

Works by Willie White have been shown at the New Orleans Museum of Art and in other Louisiana shows. He died on december 26, 2000