Nick & Marcia Alter > Hats galore! One of LV's specialties is decorating hats, and Nick just had to try a bunch of them.
Nick & Marcia Alter > Marcia also tried on a hat or two, but ended up treasuring (and buying) this piggie.
Nick & Marcia Alter > Marcia loved the cows, especially the nippled bottle dotted with cow spots.
Nick & Marcia Alter > The Folk Art of L.V. Hull  -  April 2004 photo
Nick & Marcia Alter > The Folk Art of L.V. Hull  -  April 2004 photo
Nick & Marcia Alter > Ms.LV's bedroom is like the rest of the house, filled floor to ceiling and wall to wall with her art.  “If you see a bare spot it’s because something just left outta’ here.”  The modest house barely has room to move around in yet it is clean and tidy.  How she lives, cooks, eats, stores her clothes, bathes etc. is a mystery.  She has one chair by the door where she sits.  This is also where she does her art. Across from the chair is a little Princess style dial phone covered with colorful dots.  As a matter of fact, most everything in the room is painted with colorful dots.  LV says, “Yup, a black background and colorful dots, that’s my style.  Once a little boy came in here and he looked
Nick & Marcia Alter > Ms. LV has an award from the local Chamber of Commerce for attracting tourists to this “no where” town.  Ms. LV is also featured in the same book ("Souls Grown Deep") as Joe Minter and Charles Lucas, although she doesn’t know them.  She said Oprah never came to see her but sent her housekeeper “in a big ol’ limousine.”  LV is a bit miffed at all the money Oprah has.  She says, “I came here with nothin' and I still have everything I came here with.”  Ms. LV has a TV but it’s covered with dots, even the screen.  I guess she doesn’t watch much of Oprah either.
Nick & Marcia Alter > Ms. LV's bathroom is spotlessly clean (like the rest of the house) even though the walls and shelves are covered with art.
Nick & Marcia Alter > A panorama of the same bathroom
Hats galore! One of LV's specialties is decorating hats, and Nick just had to try a bunch of them.
Nick & Marcia Alter > Hats galore! One of LV's specialties is decorating hats, and Nick just had to try a bunch of them.
Hats galore! One of LV's specialties is decorating hats, and Nick just had to try a bunch of them.
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