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FOLK ART CARVINGS/LOVE TRIANGLE/JFK,MM & JACKIE
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Fine Art:
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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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SIGNED VINTAGE HAITIAN SPIRIT (VOODOO) FLAG
Catalogue:
Fine Art:
Mixed Media:
Pre 2000 item# 548823 (stock# HaitianStJ)
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Shelton Gallery and Fine Silver
(615) 477-6221
$350
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This wonderful signed vintage Haitian spirit flag depicts Ogou, the warrior spirit of justice who appears in the guise of the Catholic Saint James. Dimensions are 30 inches by 31 inches. Haitian spirits or loa are intermediaries between humans and the realm of the spirit. They work magic for people, “mount” or possess their worshippers like horses and “ride” them into the night at special ceremonies. The "veve", or delicate ritual drawings that evoke and invoke the spirits, are drawn i ...click for details
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