Artist Files
name: label: Collection Creator
content: Hedges, Jimmy, 1942-2014
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content: Jimmy Hedges papers and Rising Fawn Folk Art Gallery records
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 4.6 Linear Feet (Boxes 5-9, 31, 33, OV 32)
label: Extent
content: 5.35 Gigabytes (ER04-ER15)
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1985-2016
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives of American Art
identifier: label: Identifier
content: AAA.hedgjimm, Series 3
objectType: label: Type
content: Archival materials
label: Type
content: Gigabytes
arrangement: label: Arrangement
content: Files are arranged alphabetically by name of artist, followed by files containing single fact sheets on miscellaneous artists in alphabetical order.
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: Found here are nearly 200 files containing Hedges's documentation on outsider, folk, and self-taught artists. Files may contain artist fact sheets written by Hedges, postcards, brochures, correspondence, photographs, and purchase and sales records. Research material on artists include newspaper and magazine clippings, photocopies of publications, and exhibition catalogs. A few files also include digital photographs and recordings. One videocassette is included in the file on Herbert Hemphill and one sound cassette is included in the file on Howard Finster. Also found are three folders containing research material on quilters and the Southern quilting tradition. Researchers should note that Hedges's extensive collection of photographs of artists and their artwork is included in Series 8: Photographic Material. The 2018 addition contains further material on Purvis Young.