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FOLK ART CARVINGS/LOVE TRIANGLE/JFK,MM & JACKIE
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Pre 2000 item# 915649 (stock# MenageATrois)
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Shelton Gallery and Fine Silver
(615) 477-6221
$2450
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This superb folk art grouping depicts the love triangle of John F. Kennedy (35th President of the United States, duly noted by the artist), his wife Jacqueline and movie star Marilyn Monroe. Wimp Gibson was a great wood carver and the son-in-law of the Appalachian wood carver Troy Webb who was married to Webb's daughter Geneva. The Gibsons and the Webbs lived in rural Claiborne County, Tennessee near the Kentucky line. Gibson is deceased. All three pieces are fashioned from buckeye and are s ...click for details
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FINE ART DECO BRONZE NUDE/MYTHOLOGICAL FIGURE
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Pre 1940 item# 763801 (stock# Bronze)
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Shelton Gallery and Fine Silver
(615) 477-6221
$975
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This extremely well done Art Deco bronze figure was likely done anywhere between the 1910s and the 1920s. The nude appears to be a mythological figure who is so fluid and graceful looking that she should have graced the hood of an automobile. Dimensions are 10-5/8 inches tall overall including the 3-5/8 inch round base; the bronze itself is 9 inches in height. There are letters stamped on her arm, but they are not familiar. What an apportunity to acquire a period Art Deco bronze of uncommon beau ...click for details
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