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List Of Woodcarvers
This is a list of Wood carving, woodcarvers - WP:N, notable people who are known for their woodworking, working wood by means of a cutting tool (knife) in one hand or a chisel by two hands or with one hand on a chisel and one hand on a mallet, resulting in a wooden figure or figurine, or in the sculpture, sculptural ornamentation of a wooden object. :''This list is incomplete. You can help by expanding it.'' {{compact ToC, side=yes, top=yes, num=yes__NOTOC__ A *Fritz Abplanalp (1907-1982) *Alma Allen (artist), Alma Allen *Gene Amondson (1943-2009) *H. S. "Andy" Anderson (1893-1960) *Wepiha Apanui *John Wormald Appleyard (1831-1894) B *Joseph A. Bailly *Magnus Berg *Leslie Garland Bolling *Lancelot Bryan C *Dudley C. Carter *Wendell Castle *Walter Channing Jr. *Johann Joseph Christian *Jack Coutu *A. Elmer Crowell *Cherie Currie D *Giovanni Angelo Del Maino *Delbert Daisey *Beau Dick *Axel Petersson Döderhultarn *Patrick Damiaens E *Henning Engelsen *Harold Enlow F *Lukman Ala ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wood Carving
Wood carving is a form of woodworking by means of a cutting tool (knife) in one hand or a chisel by two hands or with one hand on a chisel and one hand on a mallet, resulting in a wooden figure or figurine, or in the sculptural ornamentation of a wooden object. The phrase may also refer to the finished product, from individual sculptures to hand-worked mouldings composing part of a tracery. The making of sculpture in wood has been extremely widely practised, but doesn't survive undamaged as well as the other main materials like stone and bronze, as it is vulnerable to decay, insect damage, and fire. Therefore, it forms an important hidden element in the art history of many cultures. Outdoor wood sculptures do not last long in most parts of the world, so it is still unknown how the totem pole tradition developed. Many of the most important sculptures of China and Japan, in particular, are in wood, and so are the great majority of African sculpture and that of Oceania and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Walter Channing Jr
Walter may refer to: People * Walter (name), both a surname and a given name * Little Walter, American blues harmonica player Marion Walter Jacobs (1930–1968) * Gunther (wrestler), Austrian professional wrestler and trainer Walter Hahn (born 1987), who previously wrestled as "Walter" * Walter, standard author abbreviation for Thomas Walter (botanist) ( – 1789) Companies * American Chocolate, later called Walter, an American automobile manufactured from 1902 to 1906 * Walter Energy, a metallurgical coal producer for the global steel industry * Walter Aircraft Engines, Czech manufacturer of aero-engines Films and television * ''Walter'' (1982 film), a British television drama film * Walter Vetrivel, a 1993 Tamil crime drama film * ''Walter'' (2014 film), a British television crime drama * ''Walter'' (2015 film), an American comedy-drama film * ''Walter'' (2020 film), an Indian crime drama film * ''W*A*L*T*E*R'', a 1984 pilot for a spin-off of the TV series ''M*A*S*H'' * ''W ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jozef Fojtik
Jozef Fojtik (born 1960 in Krupina, Slovakia) is famous for folk art wood carving. He began woodcarving about 1988 as a hobby. He has worked extensively for Krupina, including for its mayor and for Catholic and Protestant churches in the area. His work has represented the city in many folk festivals. Some of his work has been given to important visitors, including Pope John Paul II. His working themes include Christianity and ordinary people, working primarily on wall reliefs and sculptures. References External links * {{DEFAULTSORT:Fojtik, Jozef Woodcarvers Slovak sculptors Living people 1960 births People from Krupina ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jim Flora
James Flora (January 25, 1914 ‒ July 9, 1998), best known for his distinctive and idiosyncratic album cover art for RCA Victor and Columbia Records during the 1940s and 1950s, was also a prolific commercial illustrator from the 1940s to the 1970s and the author/illustrator of 17 popular children's books. He was a fine artist as well, who created hundreds of paintings, drawings, etchings and sketches over his 84-year life. Life and early career Born in Bellefontaine, Ohio, Flora attended the Art Academy of Cincinnati from 1935 to 1939. In 1938, he met writer Robert Lowry (writer), Robert Lowry, then a student at the University of Cincinnati. They launched The Little Man Press, a letterpress series of limited edition publications, for which Flora supplied illustrations, design, and layout, and on which they collaborated until 1942. (Lowry later self-published many works under a revived Little Man imprint without Flora's involvement.) In 1941, Flora married his college sweeth ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lukman Alade Fakeye
Lukman Alade Fakeye (born June 25, 1983, in Ibadan) is a Yoruba Nigerian sculptor and woodcarver. The youngest in the Fakeye family of carvers, he is a nephew of Lamidi Olonade Fakeye, who carved the doors of the African Room at the Kennedy Center in Washington, D. C. Lukman began working with his father, Akin Fakeye, at the age of nine. Lukman Alade Fakeye studied art and design at The Polytechnic, Ibadan, where he was elected Best Student in Sculpture twice. Fakeye's works can be seen in public and private collections in Nigeria, the United States, and the United Kingdom. Exhibitions *The student art gallery at Ibadan Polytechnic *Osun Oshogbo Annual Festival with Wale Adelakun, 2000, and with Akindele Olufemi Olunloyo, 2006 *Aafak Art Gallery, Lagos, Nigeria, with Awotunde Adeniyi, 2002 *Megamurth Impression Art Gallery with Seun Adeyemo *Africraft Art Gallery with Rotimi Aderogba, 2005 *Dutch Embassy in Abuja Abuja () is the capital and eighth most populous city of N ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Harold Enlow
Harold Enlow began woodcarving in the 1960s while stationed in Okinawa, Japan. He has become one of America's leading wood carvers. He is a member of Caricature Carvers of America. Published works #''Carving Figure Caricatures in the Ozark Style'', Harold L. Enlow, 1975 #''How to Carve Faces In Driftwood'', Harold L. Enlow, 1978 #''Learn To Carve Faces & Expressions'', Harold L. Enlow, 1980 #''Let's Carve Wooden Plaques'', Harold L. Enlow, 1977 #''"Carve Your Own Hillbillkins," Little People of the Ozarks'', Harold L. Enlow, 1979 #''Carving Western Figures'', Harold L. Enlow, 1984 #''How to Carve Folk Figures and a Cigar-store Indian'', Harold L. Enlow, 1979 #''How to Carve Hobos'', Harold L. Enlow, 1989 External linksEnlowat Caricature Carvers of America In 1989, a group of ten wood carvers, with the common goal of promoting the art of caricature carving, met in the back room of Paxton Lumber Co. in Fort Worth, Texas to discuss the formation of a national organization t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Henning Engelsen
Henning Engelsen (5 February 1918 – 8 September 2005) was a Norwegian woodcarver and illustrator. Biography Henning Engelsen was born at Sandefjord in Vestfold og Telemark, Norway. He started his woodcarving career in 1947 in a small workshop at Toten in the eastern part of Norway, where he founded the wood carving companHENNING From the start his idea was to create a world of wood carved figures that radiate joy and humanity and inspire us to rise above the ordinary. His rich and manifold production counts hundreds of different motives, illustrating animal life, myths and Norwegian folklore. During the 1950s and 1960s HENNING grew steadily and was soon to be the leading enterprise on the Norwegian souvenir market, exporting figurines to all over the world. At the time, Engelsen had more than 25 craftsmen working in his studio. He ran HENNING with great success until 1988. Two of his three daughters; Christl Engelsen, Angelina Engelsen and his son-in-law, Bjarne Espedal, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Patrick Damiaens
Patrick Damiaens (born 15 November 1966) is a Belgian woodcarver who specialises in baroque ornamental and heraldic sculptures. Biography After studying furniture making for six years and ornamental woodcarving for four years, Damiaens started his professional career in 1989. He is a follower of the Liège-Aachen Baroque furniture style :fr:Style_Liège-Aix">fr;_ :fr:Style_Liège-Aix">fr;_:nl:Luiks-Akense_meubelstijl">nl;_:de:Aachen-Lütticher_Möbel.html" ;"title=":nl:Luiks-Akense_meubelstijl.html" ;"title=":fr:Style_Liège-Aix.html" ;"title="nowiki/>:fr:Style Liège-Aix">fr; :nl:Luiks-Akense meubelstijl">nl; :de:Aachen-Lütticher Möbel">de] which dates to the 17th century. His studio is located in Maaseik in the Provinces of Belgium, Belgian province of Limburg (Belgium), Limburg. In 2015, he was commissioned to recreate intricate woodcarvings for prayer frames that had been stolen from Emperor Napoleon III's tomb in St Michael's Abbey in Farnborough. In March 2015, he r ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Axel Petersson Döderhultarn
Axel "Döderhultarn" Petersson, formerly Axel Petersson, (12 December 1868 – 15 March 1925) was a Swedish wood carver who was one of the recognized masters of wood carving, most famous for Scandinavian flat-plane style of woodcarving, Scandinavian flat-plane-style woodcarving. Early years Axel Petersson Döderhultarn was born in the parish of Döderhult in Oskarshamn Municipality. His parents were Eva Lotta Persdotter and Per August Petersson. When he was five years of age, his father died. Members of his family decided the best thing for him to do as a young adult was to emigrate to the United States. Petersson did not emigrate to America, as his family had planned, and after a brief time away he moved back to help his widowed mother in Oskarshamn. In his youth, his primary interest was in whittling, and Wood carving, carving small figures. He worked on figure carving and sold figurines in the local market in Oskarshamn. Most of the figures he sold were refined traditio ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Beau Dick
Beau Dick (November 23, 1955 – March 27, 2017) was a Kwakwaka'wakw Northwest Coast artist and Chief who lived and worked in Alert Bay, British Columbia, Canada. He was a contemporary artist, activist and hereditary Chief from the Namgis First Nation. Dick was an artist with an extensive national and international exhibition history.Rachelle Dickenson, Acquisition Proposal for Beau Dick’s Bookwus Ghost Mask and Supernatural Kolus, accession #46607 and #46608.1-2, Curatorial File, National Gallery of Canada. Early life Beau Dick was born in Kingcome Inlet, BC, a Kwakwaka’wakw village north of Vancouver Island, British Columbia. His family moved to Vancouver, BC, when he was six years old. From a young age he was heavily influenced by the customary woodcarving of both his grandfather and father. Dick assisted his grandfather and father in carving one of the world's tallest totem poles in Alert Bay. Art career When Dick was 17, he was asked to apprentice under artist Ton ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Delbert Daisey
Delbert Lee "Cigar" Daisey (March 6, 1928 – April 19, 2017), known as "Cigar" Daisey, was an American waterfowl wood carver and decoy maker. He was the son of Herbert Lee Daisey and Emma Jane Daisey. He was born, lived and worked in Chincoteague, Virginia, and was the resident carver at the Refuge Waterfowl Museum.Collins, Dennis. "Former Outlaw Hunters Carving Out New Lives", ''The Washington Post'', April 13, 1982, page C3. His decoy carvings are recognized for both their artistic value and functionality as working pieces for waterfowl hunting. His works include black ducks, mallards, redheads, ruddys and red-breasted mergansers and often crafted in drake (male) and hen (female) pairs. He had carved about 1900 ducks in total and he generally used cork or wood as his medium. He carved his first duck out of balsa wood in 1940 at his father's wood shop. The Smithsonian has his works in their collection. He was given his nickname in 1945 by John Buckalew, Federal Game ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Giovanni Angelo Del Maino
Giovanni Angelo Del Maino (active in Pavia and the duchy of Milan The Duchy of Milan ( it, Ducato di Milano; lmo, Ducaa de Milan) was a state in northern Italy, created in 1395 by Gian Galeazzo Visconti, then the lord of Milan, and a member of the important Visconti family, which had been ruling the city sin ... 1496–1536; possibly born in Milan, c. 1475; date of death unknown) was an Italian sculptor in wood. 1475 births Italian sculptors Italian male sculptors Italian woodcarvers Year of death unknown {{Italy-sculptor-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
