Hollis was awarded Alabama’s highest humanities honor in 2018, when he was named the humanities fellow for the Alabama Humanities Alliance.
TROY, Alabama — Fred Nall Hollis, an award-winning, world renowned Alabama visual artist, died on Saturday, according to a local arts center. He was 76.
Born in Troy, Alabama, Hollis worked in a variety of genre-bending mediums, including porcelain, carpet, mosaics, sculpture and etchings. The prolific artist was featured in over 300 one-man shows and showed his work across the world, including in the United States, France and Italy, according to the Nature Art and Life League Art Association, a foundation that Hollis established.
Under the professional name “Nall,” the artist worked under the tutelage of Salvadore Dali in the early 1970s, according to the association’s website.
Hollis went into hospice last week and died on Saturday, said Pelham Pearce, executive director of the Eastern Shore Art Center in …