Bessie Harvey
(1929- )
Folk Artist

Rosenak, Chuck, and Jan Rosenak. Museum of American Folk Art Encyclopedia of Twentieth-Century American Folk Art and Artists. New York: Abbeville Press, 1990.
Includes a color photograph of her work, Jezebel, as well as a brief but informative overview of her work.

Yelen, Alice Rae. Passionate Visions of the American South: Self-Taught Artists from 1940 to the Present. Jackson, Miss.: distributed by University Press of Mississippi, 1993. Includes a photograph of Harvey and a brief biographical sketch (p. 311), as well as a color photograph of her sculpture, Yellow Bird with Rider (p. 185). See index for additional coverage.


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