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Butler dropped out of school to care for his siblings. He did many manual jobs in his career. In 1960, while working at a sawmill, he had an accident which resulted in partial disability and retirement.
He bought a small house at this time and began decorating his yard with tin sculptures he created by cutting intricate and whimsical forms from metal and applying tin buttons for eyes and house paint.
His work was discovered by William Fagaly, director of the New Orleans Museum of Art in 1970 and was given a one-person show at the Museum that year. Butler was include in the groundbreaking show “Black Folk Art in America: 1930-1980” at the Corcoran Gallery of Art in Washington, DC in 1982.
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