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L.W. Crawford Match Stick Folk Art Assemblage with Glitter 9"H x 6"W. Signed
L.W. Crawford, an outsider artist from Montgomery, Alabama, gained notoriety for his intricate crosses made from matchboxes and matchsticks covered in glitter. Crawford's interest in making art began while serving a prison sentence.
He was once married to Annie Tolliver, the daughter of famous folk outsider artist Mose Tolliver who encouraged Crawford to seriously pursue art.
Crawford's works have been collected by various institutions such as the House of Blues, American Folk Art Museum in New York, Birmingham, and Myron Shure, a former Strombecker Toy Executive who had accumulated a collection of "Outsider Art" and directed Intuit: The Center for Intuitive and Outsider Art in the Chicago area. Additionally, Crawford's pieces were included in the "Outsider Artists in Alabama" a project of the Alabama State Council on the Arts.