Jun 25
Edgar Tolson, Expulsion, ca. 1970, wood, 14 × 17 × 8 1⁄4 in. (35.6 × 43.2 × 21 cm), Smithsonian American Art Museum, Gift of Orren and Marilyn Bradley and Kohler Foundation, Inc., 2015.58.22
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Edgar Tolson, Expulsion, ca. 1970, wood, 14 × 17 × 8 1⁄4 in. (35.6 × 43.2 × 21 cm), Smithsonian American Art Museum, Gift of Orren and Marilyn Bradley and Kohler Foundation, Inc., 2015.58.22
Edgar Tolson, Adam and Eve, 1979, carved and painted wood and pencil, Smithsonian American Art Museum.
Today’s run. Brought you in part by rain and wet grass. Concluding a 2.90 mile run. Thought it wild be cool to profile a place around were I grew up. First Juniper Heath Inc. Blurting out the phone number nothing wrong with the sign. When open in 2013 it was dedicated to DR Paul F. Maddox. The same building he doctored many a human being.
Remembering visiting this clinic several times when I was a kid. Doc was an awesome man and great physician. I am privileged knowing him as a person. He was awarded Country Dr of the year in 1999. Some historic artifacts hand crafted in this very town were displayed in the waiting room. A couple now residing in the Smithsonian Insinuate Washington DC by Edgar Tolson.
If you would like to read a bit on Doc copy and past the below web page. It don’t go into detail of all the great work and accomplishments he done. Just a great overview.
http://americanprofile.com/articles/doctor-paul-maddox/
@mountain--miss given your future career you may enjoy this short read.
God said, ‘It is not good that the man should be alone; I will make him a helper…’
Edgar Tolson (1904-84) lived his whole life in Kentucky, where he raised eighteen children and worked as a preacher, farmer, carpenter, cobbler, and chairmaker. After suffering a stroke in his fifties, he took his hobby of whittling to another level. He completed this piece in 1979.
[image from the Smithsonian American Art Museum]
The fall of man
Edgar Tolson, a Kentucky artist who died in 1984, made a fabulous series of carvings depicting the Genesis story of temptation, original sin and expulsion from paradise.
It’s part of the exhibit “Outliers and American Vanguard Art” at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, where I made this photo.
You don't make it with your hands. You form it with your hands. You make it with you mind.
Edgar Tolson, 1971