Hemmerling Gallery of Southern Art


William 'Bill' Hemmerling was a self-taught folk artist who incorporated wood, debris and found objects into a powerfully vital body of work. This gallery displays his originals, as well as art by other folk painters and sculptors whose work demonstrates much of the same raw energy.


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