Around Back at Rocky’s Place – Folk Art Gallery
Posted on April 17th, 2007 by Becky // 6 Comments »
Last week I took my family up to the mountains of Georgia to go to a the best folk art gallery I’ve ever seen. Around Back at Rocky’s Place is owned by an art teacher and her husband, and they have an amazing eye for finding talent and nurturing it. I have never seen so many paintings by one of my favorites, John Cornbread Anderson. They were loaded up with work by R.A. Miller, Mose Tolliver, Jimmy Lee Sudduth, Aline Harris, and 120 other artists. The gallery is only an hour north of Atlanta, just past the Dawsonville 400 outlets. Next time you’re searching for a bargain couch at the Pottery Barn outlet, keep on going just a few more miles. You’ll be glad you made the trip! Rocky’s Place is open on Saturdays and by appointment.
The only time I’ve seen Cornbread do a giraffe:
By Sweet Tater:
By the late, great Mose Tolliver:
I can’t remember this artist’s name:
My cousin Alison scored this Cornbread:
A new artist, exclusively carried by Rocky’s Place, Blacktop:
My favorite, for a kitchen or a restaurant. How funny would this one be in a favorite watering hole? It’s the “But Meat” that had us laughing the hardest.
A cow by McCord:
Personal Scores:
Now in my kitchen:
This Cornbread cardinal reminded me of all the work Charlie Harper did for the Cincinnati Nature Center, where I hung out a lot as a kid. Birthday Score from my parents!:
My cousin Alison gave me this Cornbread for my birthday. The gift giving is getting very extravagent!
Book pages by Blacktop:
Also, you can also find items from this gallery on eBay. There are not any currently listed, but the seller name is “aroundbackatrockysplace.”
Filed in Events & Exhibitions | 6 Comments
April 17th, 2007 at 12:09 pm (#)
Enjoy your picture tour of “Around Back at Rocky’s Place”, it looks like some of my favorite type of places to go. I do some folk art of my own and so enjoy seeing others work.
Love your blog, thanks for sharing it. Will be checking back to read and see more!
Have a great day Becky!
April 19th, 2007 at 10:44 am (#)
Sherwin, it’s definitely worth the trip (plus there are great outlet stores about 3 miles away
) The owner is an art teacher and seems like she gives fantastic guidance and support to her artists.
Thanks for the comments!
Becky
August 1st, 2007 at 5:04 pm (#)
Hi darlings,just stopped buy to say hi.love seeing y’alls artist
October 22nd, 2007 at 12:51 pm (#)
Hey Becky!
We are local to Dawsonville and know both Robin and Tracey, no husband involved… great folks!
http://www.aroundbackatrockysplace.com/
is their website.
3rd Annual “Saints & Haints” Show
Saturday, October 27, 2007
7:00 – 9:00 p.m.
We’ll be there!
July 16th, 2008 at 9:36 am (#)
How wonderful! Next time I visit my sister in New Orleans, we SHALL take a drive out to your place.
March 4th, 2009 at 9:04 pm (#)
YOU REALLY SHOULD CHECK OUT Jessie lavOn WHOS ART IS AROUND BACK AT ROCKY’S PLACE
http://www.folkartists.org/Gal32_jessie_lavon_s_Gallery.asp
A Southern sharecropper’s daughter ~ Southern Places Of The Past
A Southern sharecropper’s daughter ~ Southern Places Of The Past
My art is in collections and Museums in the U.S.A,Canada and Europe. It has been written up in MAGAZINES LIKE RAW VISION AND SOUTHERN LADY as well as being shown at the Huntsville Museum along with the art of Grand Ma Moses and Norman Rockwell. I have shown at the Atlanta Folk Fest and at Kentuck with artist like Lisa Cain, Woddie Long, Jimmy Lee Sudduth. On Sept 23,after the death of my beloved Mother who died in my arms, I said good by to a 30 year art career as a folk artist on the art circuit to sell and paint as a Independent folk artist , So come and travel the road back to my childhood days where the late afternoon drifts into long shadows and where I paint memories of my childhood. my family canning,making moon shine, the chain gang,working in the fields.email me with orders and questions. be sure to see purple cucumbers who is creating altered art.I am a multi talented folk artist and work in many mediums and have gone back to creating in mud art that I was taught in 1965