John Henry Toney

John Henry Toney (1928-2019) was a self-taught African-American artist from Alabama who began making art late in life. He spent most of his life living in a trailer without running water or heat on 10 acres of land. He worked a tractor plowing fields and one day he unearthed a turnip that had a face and took it home. He did a drawing of the turnip with face and then sold it. Thus began a new phase of his life as an artist.

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