Bio

J. B. Murray (1908 - 1988) was a farmer and sharecropper who lived in rural Glascock County, Georgia. At around the age of 70, Murray began experiencing hallucinatory visions and communications that he believed were directly from God. During a visionary trance, he described the sun descending from the sky and landing in his yard while he was watering his vegetable garden. "After that," he told the artist, Judith McWillie, "The eagle crossed my eye... a spiritual eagle. You know the eagle can see farther than any other bird in the world, and that's why I can see things some folks can't." From this point on, Murray’s drawings and paintings were considered by the artist to be direct transcriptions of the word of God, which he could translate by reading through vials of water from his property’s well.

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