Star Spangled Jazz Notecard

Bill Hemmerling was a self-taught artist who discovered painting late in life. He was born in Chicago in 1943 and relocated to his mother’s hometown of Ponchatoula, Louisiana as a young man. After retiring, his attraction to Southern folk culture and art led him to begin painting on boards, doors and other discarded objects he found. While his art career lasted only a few years, Hemmerling has become one of Louisiana’s most widely collected artists.