02-25-200102-25-2001
Skinner Auctions
Skinner AuctionsBolton MA
2056
February 25, 2001 10:00 AMCalender
1020

Carved Walnut Lady Liberty Figure

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$29,900$26,000
Auction: Sale #2056 - 2056Location: BoltonDate / Time: February 25, 2001 10:00AM

Description:

Carved Walnut Lady Liberty Figure, America, attributed to Edgar Alexander McKillop (1879-1950),Balfour, North Carolina, the eyes of pearly beads, with stand, ht. 30, wd. 6 1/4, dp. 7 1/2 in. N.B. McKillop lived his entire life in western North Carolina and worked as a logger, cooper, machinist, blacksmith, and jack-of-all-trades. A self-taught artist, McKillop produced the majority of his walnut sculptures in a ten-year period after 1926, when a neighbor offered lumber. McKillop's works, produced with hammer, chisel, and sandpaper, range from small woodland creatures sculpted from observation, to African wildlife, snakes, and dragons, to patriotic carvings such as this Liberty figure. McKillop's sculptures are in the Henry Ford Museum and the Abby Aldrich Rockefeller Folk Art Center, Williamsburg, Virginia. The patriotic figural group from the Ford museum is pictured in Robert Bishop's AMERICAN FOLK SCULPTURE, (New York, 1983),p. 334, fig. 619. A copy of E.A. MCKILLOP A BORN CARVING MAN; FIVE NORTH CAROLINA FOLK ARTISTS, by Charles G. Zug III, is provided with the lot. Provenance: Aarne Anton/American Primitive Gallery.
Estimate $24,000-26,000

Keywords

Edgar Alexander McKillop, Liberty Figure, N.B. McKillop, logger , Balfour, blacksmith , self-taught artist , Virginia, Henry Ford Museum, Williamsburg, Abby Aldrich Rockefeller Folk Art Center, patriotic figural, patriotic figural group, Robert Bishop, Ford, Ford museum, Charles G. Zug III, American Primitive Gallery