- Name
- O. L. "Geech" Samuels
- Also Known as
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O. L. SamuelsOssie Lee Samuels
- Born
- Wilcox County, Georgia 1931
- Died
- Tallahassee, Florida 2017
- Active in
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- Moultrie, Georgia
- Nationalities
- U.S. States
- Linked Open Data
- Linked Open Data URI
Luce Artist Biography
Ossie Lee "Geech" Samuels left home at the age of eight and worked in New York City before returning to the South in 1960. In 1982, while working as a tree surgeon in Georgia, Samuels was injured by a falling tree. He fell into a deep depression after the accident but found that carving helped ease the pain. (Betty-Carol Sellen, Self Taught, Outsider, and Folk Art, 2000)
