Word: carvers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Back from Nashville, Tenn. a year ago came Manhattan Photographer Louise Dahl-Wolfe with a portfolio full of photographs and a head bubbling with enthusiasm. In a semiliterate, 57-year-old Negro tombstone carver she had discovered yet another U. S. primitive artist. The Museum of Modern Art's Director Alfred Barr Jr. echoed her enthusiasm, and last week the first one-man show the Museum has ever given a Negro artist opened in a couple of alcoves in the Museum's temporary quarters in Rockefeller Center...
Deeply religious, Sculptor Edmondson is far from the bottom of Nashville's Negro society. A hard-working hospital orderly for many years, he owns his own home and a thriving vegetable patch, turned tombstone carver about five years ago because of a vision. To friends last week he explained his conversion: "Dis here stone n' all those out there in de yard-come from God. It's de word in Jesus speakin' his mind in my mind. I mus' be one of his 'ciples. Dese here is mirkels I can do. Cain...
...read large print with difficulty, writes scarcely at all. Carver Edmondson does not smoke, neither does he chew, but he admits to an occasional medical...
...last week a great U. S. flag slowly furled, disclosing the stone carved face of Abraham Lincoln as it would have appeared had that President been 465 ft. tall. Measuring 66 ft. from chin to crown, Lincoln's was the third face to be unveiled in Mountain Carver Gutzon Borglum's huge and heroic Mount Rushmore Memorial. George Washington's was dedicated in 1927 at ceremonies attended by President Coolidge, Thomas Jefferson's last year before President Roosevelt. Last week the chief dignitary in the crowd of 5,000 Dakotans and tourists at the unveiling...
...Manhattan went Tuskegee Institute's A. W. Curtis Jr., to raise $1,354,290 to build a laboratory dedicated to famed, slaveborn, seventyish Negro Botanist George Washington Carver-Said Mr. Curtis, "We want to build this laboratory honoring Dr. Carver while he is still alive. We want him to work in the laboratory so that we will have the benefit of his guidance and advice...