Mobile Museum of Art: FREDERICK A. MARCHMAN: Southern Pop

Fred Marchman was a Mobile and Southern original.  Everyone who knew him said he was born an artist – obsessed, determined, prolific and creative.

He called himself a Southern Pop artist and said he was influenced by ancient art, modern painting and sculpture, folk art, esoteric writings, visionary and spiritual themes.  He was a painter, printmaker, sculptor, and illustrator who reveled in using paint, wood, canvas, ink, metal, charcoal, crayon, and even concrete, to