User:Brucepshivley/Stephen JM Palmer

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Stephen JM Palmer (1882-1965) is a self-taught American visionary artist [], who painted iconically striking images of Catholic/Christian religious figures. Palmer often incorporated complex colorful borders, obsessive patterns, naive figural representations, Cold War invocations for peace and a love of America, and varied depictions of the Sacred Heart in his paintings. After a logging accident in Wisconsin, Palmer was confined to his bed where he painted and received weekly visitors, creating a cult-like following. Palmer died in 1965 and left all his paintings to one of his followers. After her death in the early 2000s in Necedah, Wisconsin, the site of an unsanctioned, fringe Catholic shrine, Palmer's entire body of work was discovered.