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THBJohnny Banks, Plowing Scene
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LiveMar 7, 2026
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John Willard Banks (Texas, 1912-1988), plowing fields scene, colored pencil and marker on paper, signed lower right
sight: 12 x 14 in., frame: 20 x 23 in.
Provenance: Property from a home in San Antonio, Texas
John Willard Banks was a self-taught African American folk artist from Texas whose work documented both rural life and imaginative visions. Banks began drawing as a child, and developed a distinctive style by outlining figures in pencil or ballpoint pen and shading them with colored pencil, crayon, or markers. His subjects ranged from early 20th-century rural experiences like baptisms, church meetings, Juneteenth celebrations, and farm life, to imagined African villages and religious visions. Banks began his art career late, at age 66, after his wife exhibited some of his drawings, leading to his first solo show at Caroline Lee Gallery in San Antonio in 1984. He went on to participate in numerous exhibitions, including shows with the Southwest Ethnic Arts Society, Laguna Gloria Art Museum’s "Handmade and Heartfelt", the Museum of African-American Life and Culture’s "Rambling on My Mind", the O’Connor Gallery, and "Black History/Black Vision: The Visionary Image in Texas" at the University of Texas. His works, with their detailed, expressive figures and lush landscapes, are important records of African American life and culture in Texas.
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