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Bernice Johnson Sims

Bernice Johnson Sims (1926 - 2014) was active/lived in Alabama, Louisiana.  Bernice Sims is known for Naive, folk art style painting, political, racial themes.

Born on Christmas Day, 1926, Bernice Sims lived all her life in rural and small town southern Alabama. She said she did not notice the racial divisions in the American South when she was a child, because “everybody was just poor.” As she grew up though, her eyes were opened and she became a witness to social injustice and a participant in the Civil Rights Movement of the 1960’s.

Although she had an early interest in painting, there was no time for it until relatively late in life. After years of working hard to earn a living and single-handedly raising her six children, Sims resolved to continue her education at the local community college. She began to paint & found her own style with the encouragement of an art instructor at the school. Her brightly colored paintings illustrate her memories, from scenes of children playing with homemade toys, to scenes of demonstrators being attacked with fire hoses. In the years that followed, her work gained national attention and her pa   ...  [Displaying 1000 of 7828 characters.]  Artist bio

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