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Wood carver -- sign maker from Vermont...he makes deliveries to the gallery several times a year with his wears loaded on the back of his truck, I just pull out the pieces I want to buy and sell and he drives away...I love my job.
Lee began carving when he was a supervisor of construction projects. He traveled around the country building hospitals, hotels, etc. and on weekends would carve. He carved the different trades; iron workers on red iron, concrete finishers on the base of a piece. He carved a saying usually profane, that a trade said. On a project in Manhattan he took some pieces to the Museum of American Folk Art and it was well received. When a recession hit the construction industry he began carving full time. He has never looked back. Lee carves what he calls "wise old sayings" and at last count had 185 sayings that he carves. During the summer he does art shows in beach towns and carves "shore stuff" ... oars with bathing beauties atop them; a bar stool becomes a wine bar. Sports have been good to Lee so he carves teams and puts them on bats, hockey sticks, banners, etc. His carved pet bowls are really great! People have told him they use them for dips and such at parties too.
Our Art Gallery also has work by Reverend Howard Finster, Inez Nathaniel Walker, William Edmondson, Thornton Dial, Missionary Mary Proctor, Miz Thang, Nancy Valelly, R A Miller, Jimmy Lee Sudduth, Mose Tolliver, folk pottery and all the great outsiders new or old.
Any and all sales are final - no refunds.
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