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TIM LEWIS FOLK ART STONE SCULPTURE 'PREACHER MAN' browse these categories for related items... Directory: Fine Art:Sculpture:Stone:Contemporary: item # 529260 Please refer to our stock # PreacherMa when inquiring.
Shelton Gallery and Fine Silver 5133 Harding Road B-10, PMB #392 Nashville TN 37205 (615) 477-6221 Guest Book $8500 |
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| This striking contemporary folk art sandstone carving of "Preacher Man" is crafted by the talented Tim Lewis. Tim uses the natural coloration and the sheer size of the stone to create a fixture of the South, the preacher, shown here holding his Bible. Dimensions are 35 inches in height, 14-1/2 inches wide and 11-1/2 inches in depth. Tim Lewis is a self-taught stone carver who lives in the mountains of Eastern Kentucky. He was born in 1952 just down the road from his present hilltop home, which he built himself for his wife and daughters. He spent six years traveling around the world courtesy of the Army and afterwards came back to the Appalachian Mountains, where he worked a variety of jobs from oil well digging, strip mining, and logging until a truck accident sidelined him in 1988. It was then that he followed his family's penchant for carving. He was inspired and encouraged by his brother Leroy, cousin Junior Lewis, who died recently, and cousin, Minnie Adkins and her late husband and carving collaborator Garland Adkins. Tim Lewis coaxes awesome images from stone and creates fanciful walking sticks and humorous metalworks. Subject matter includes from Biblical themes, animals and popular figures carved from sandstone that has been salvaged from chimneys of houses that have burned down. Besides being held in many important private collections, Lewis' work is owned by the Mennello Museum in Orlando, Florida, Columbus Museum of Art (Columbus, Ohio), the Owensboro (Kentucky) Museum of Fine Art, the Smithsonian Institution, and the Kentucky Folk Art Center in Morehead. Lewis was also represented in the exhibition "Flying Free" at the Abby Aldrich Rockefeller Folk Art Center in Williamsburg, Virginia. He was also commissioned to do a permanent installation for the 1996 Olympics in Atlanta. He is a major talent of the twentieth century. Tim Lewis' work is illustrated in Outsider Art of the South (Schiffer Publishing Ltd.) by Kathy Moses. | |||||||||
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