Welmon Sharlhorne

Welmon Sharlhorne (born 1952) is an American visual artist. He is self-taught, and is considered an Outsider artist. Sharlhorne is a native of Houma, Louisiana, and has also lived in the French Quarter in New Orleans. He is nicknamed Uncle Shadow, and has gone by the name Welman Stovall.

Biography Welmon Sharlhorne was born in Houma, Louisiana, he was one of fourteen children born into an African-American family. At the time of his youth, the area was under Jim Crow laws and was racially segregated.

Sharlhorne's work is in permanent museum collections, including the Pérez Art Museum Miami, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Ogden Museum of Southern Art, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, the African American Museum of Dallas, and the High Museum of Art.