Flower Child by Inez Walker Start Price USD 489.00 Current Price USD 489.00 Time Left - Bid Count 0 Buy It Now Price - Reserve Price - Start Time Saturday, October 11, 2008 End Time Saturday, October 18, 2008 Location South Carolina See more about 'Flower Child by Inez Walker' Description Flower Child by Inez Walker.  14 x 17 framed to 20 x 26.  Colored pencil and crayon on paper.  Inez Walker was born in Sumter South Carolina in 1911 and orphaned at an early age.  She married when only 13 years old and quickly had four children.  After moving North, she worked at several different factory jobs before being convicted of killing a man who had abused her.  It was while imprisoned at Bedford Hills Correctional Institute from 1971 to 1974 that she began to draw.  Using any paper available, even on the back of prison handouts, she drew with graphite the people around her.  Mainly the inmates who she refereed to as the "bad girls".  The women are often depicted in social situations engaging in the pleasures of drinking,s smoking and conversing.  Her figures have especially large heads with large eyes and are often tinted with colored pencils or crayons.  Men and children only occassionally appear in her work.  Inez quit drawing in her later yers and even disappeared for a while.  She began to paint again shortly before her death in 1990.  If you would like to bid on this item and do not have a Pay Pal account, please email.  Buyers with good feedback only please.  Place a Bid!