William Edmondson

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William Edmondson (1882? - 1951) was an African-American folk art sculptor.

Edmondson was the first African-American artist to be given a One-Person show at the Museum of Modern Art in New York City (1937).

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Thompson, Lovett, Freeman, McWillie, Gundaker and Sims, The Art of William Edmondson, Cheekwood Museum of Art, Knoxville, Tennessee and University Press of Mississippi, Jackson, 1999

The WPA Guide to Tennessee, Compiled and Written by the Federal Writers' Project of the Works Projects Administration for the State of Tennessee, The University of Tennessee Press, Knoxville, 1986