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Mary Le Ravin was born on 1905 in Natchez, Mississippi, is an artist. Discover Mary Le Ravin's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is She in this year and how She spends money? Also learn how She earned most of networth at the age of 87 years old?
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Visual artist, healer, preacher |
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87 years old |
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1905, 1905 |
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1905 |
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Natchez, Mississippi |
Date of death |
September 1992 |
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United States |
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Mary Le Ravin Height, Weight & Measurements
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Who Is Mary Le Ravin's Husband?
Her husband is Louis Le Ravin (m. 1927)
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Mary Le Ravin Net Worth
Her net worth has been growing significantly in 2022-2023. So, how much is Mary Le Ravin worth at the age of 87 years old? Mary Le Ravin’s income source is mostly from being a successful artist. She is from United States. We have estimated
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$1 Million - $5 Million |
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1992 Religious Visionaries: Simon Sparrow/Mary Le Ravin. Carl Hammer Gallery, Chicago, IL
Le Ravin regularly displayed and sold her art at local events such as the Los Angeles Street Scene and annual Black Pride Parade. The most significant exhibition of Le Ravin's art career happened during the end of her life when, in 1991, the John Michael Kohler Arts Center, in Sheboygan, Wisconsin, exhibited over 150 of her works alongside those of Simon Sparrow and Norbert Kox in a show called Religious Visionaries. The John Michael Kohler Arts Center retains some of Le Ravin's works as part of its permanent collection.
1991 Religious Visionaries, John Michael Kohler Arts Center, Sheboygan, Wisconsin
1990 The African Marketplace, Rancho Cienega Park, Los Angeles, CA
1990 William Grant Still Community Arts Center, Los Angeles, CA
Thus, Le Ravin earned the nickname "47th Street Mama". After some time performing this charitable work, God told her to "Stop feeding them and start preaching". Due to the 1987 Whittier Narrows earthquake and her declining health, Le Ravin was forced to leave her storefront space, abandoning many unfinished sculptures, barrels of bones, and other materials.
In 1968, after being called racial slurs at the county fair in Gary, where she won several art competitions, Le Ravin moved to Los Angeles to be near her sister, Sarah. By the time Le Ravin ended up in California she was an ordained minister. As Mother Mary, she procured free use of a storefront in an area, near the University of Southern California, that housed many black-owned businesses. From this location, she set up an all-in-one thrift shop, art studio, and kitchen for feeding the poor and homeless. Folklorist Daniel Wojcik called this space, where Le Ravin ministered to the people of the neighborhood, a "storefront church".
Though she had made bone trinkets starting in the 1940s, Le Ravin only began creating her art in earnest after her husband's 1956 death in a steel mill accident. Because Louis was light-skinned enough to pass as white and his coworkers had never met her by the time of his death, they were shocked to learn Louis' wife was a Black woman when she came in to sign the papers claiming her husband's pension. After Louis' death, a devastated Le Ravin more consciously engaged the spirit world, especially through dreaming and deep sleep. When one of her tenants reported someone had attempted to break into the house one night, she prayed and heard the Holy Spirit instructing her to create "bone art" as a way of deterring prowlers.
The couple moved to Gary, Indiana around 1936 or 1937 as part of the Great Migration, and Louis went to work in the city's steel mills. Mary ran a boarding house and engaged with church work, first in Baptist churches where she was prohibited from taking on any leadership role due to her gender, then as a Jehovah's Witness. After becoming a Jehovah's Witness, Le Ravin's evangelical efforts took her traveling throughout the U.S. South and Midwest.
At the age of 16, she met her future husband, Louis Le Ravin, while working as a babysitter for a Creole theatre family in Monroe, Louisiana. Louis, the mixed-race son of a white father and black mother, belonged to a prosperous Creole class Mary had not been exposed to before leaving Mississippi. Despite Louis being 14 years Mary's senior, Mary fell in love with him during their fishing trips together. They married in 1927.
Mary Le Ravin (1905 – September 1992) was an African American visionary artist and ordained minister. She was a self-taught artist best known for creating sculptures, jewelry, household items and trinkets out of animal bones, natural materials, and other found objects.