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Josephus Farmer

Josephus Farmer (1894 - 1989) was active/lived in Illinois.  Josephus Farmer is known for Naive religio-historical carvings.

Josephus Farmer, an African-American Pentecostal minister and itinerant preacher, is known for the bas-relief woodcarvings and banners he used as preaching tools. Born in Tennessee in 1894, the son and grandson of enslaved people, Farmer felt himself called to the ministry in 1922. He supported himself with working class jobs and through the sale of his art. His works are in many private collections, as well as the Milwaukee Art Museum, Milwaukee, WI and the Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, D.C. Josephus Farmer passed away in 1989.

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