Woodcarving: boy walking

Woodcarving: boy walking

Brasstown Carvers

Handicraft

John C. Campbell Folk School

Wood-carving -- Appalachian Region, Southern

Woodwork -- Appalachian Region, Southern

This carved figure of a walking boy is a unique piece carved by Hope Caler Brown. It is made from fir, a wood rarely used by carvers who produced work for the John C. Campbell Folk School. Hope Brown and her husband Glenn carved with John C. Campbell Folk School instructor Murrial Martin in the 1940s. In 1942, Hope Brown made more than $250 from carving, more than any other woman carver. Her sales were topped by only a handful of male carvers. Having raised eight children, Hope Brown has said that carving kept the family off welfare. Unlike many carvers who worked from patterns or drawings provided by Martin, Brown designed her own patterns and shared them with other carvers. She lost many original patterns in a fire that destroyed school woodshop in 1944. This roughly carved boy could be one of her early pieces as most of her work is features finely detailed figures that were sanded smoothly.

Brasstown Carvers

Brown, Hope Caler

Artifact Collection

Hunter Library Digital Collections, Western Carolina University, Cullowhee, NC 28723

1940/1979

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crafts (art genres)

StillImage

14899

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2007-10-08

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Clay County (N.C.)

Appalachian Region, Southern

6" x 3" x 3"(dimension)

Craft Revival