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Nellie Ashford
Self-taught artist, currently in her 70s (date of birth?): http://www.charlotteobserver.com/entertainment/arts-culture/article92356032.html

From Charlottesville, NC

In 2016 had her first solo show at a major art museum (the Harvey B. Gantt Center for African-American Arts + Culture in Charlottesville). mixed-material artist

Honored by the Gantt Center in 2007, for their Jazz Holiday Luncheon

Included in list: https://books.google.com/books?id=UbSaCwAAQBAJ&pg=PT42&lpg=PT42&dq=%22nellie+ashford%22+catalog&source=bl&ots=_RVv5wlTPJ&sig=DruM-fV_0FJuIjBnWB9zrEzNyx8&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwiv27HXxMzSAhVLxmMKHWJZCjQ4ChDoAQgeMAI#v=onepage&q=%22nellie%20ashford%22%20catalog&f=false

"work expresses cultural identity, shared community values and aesthetics": https://www.ganttcenter.org/exhibitions/nellie-ashford-through-my-eyes/

depictions of Charlottesville in Jim Crow era/Jim Crow South