HH 115

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SKU: HH 115

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Rev. Hayes was born in 1923 in West Virginia. His first whittling was strictly utilitarian. "You really couldn't call it whittling, but I used to make - out of sticks as big as your finger or maybe a little bigger - deadfalls. A deadfall is a great, big, flat rock, you use to trap animals.” I would sell the pelts for five cents during the depression and that was a lot of money. Also during the 1930's, Hayes encountered his first real inspiration as a woodcarver. His father bought some handmade furniture. Along with the furniture, he brought home a wooden ball within a box, both carved from a single piece of wood. The puzzle fascinated Herman, and all-of-a-piece carvings continue to please him. Today a number of his carvings feature not only balls but collections of human figures within cages. Others have circular wheels of wood that actually turn, carved from the same block of wood that forms the frame within which the wheels spin.Rev. Hayes has received the WV Governor’s Arts Award and is featured in several museum collections and is a featured artist in the famous book O’Appalachia. This is bass wood, carved by Rev. Hayes, signed or stamped, in perfect condition size 13"X5"X2".

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