Mountain Lion

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Mountain Lion

c. 1935-1938

Edgar Alexander McKillop (American (active Balfour, North Carolina), 1879–1950)

From the late 1920s until about 1938, Edgar Alexander McKillop produced a dramatic menagerie of animal, human, and imaginary creatures. Working almost exclusively in the local black walnut of rural western North Carolina, he explored the expressive, rough-hewn qualities of wood while engaging his own brand of imaginative, direct humor.

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Object Details

Title:

Mountain Lion

Date:

c. 1935-1938

Artist:

Edgar Alexander McKillop (American (active Balfour, North Carolina), 1879–1950)

Medium:

Black walnut; yellow glass

Dimensions:

15 × 9 1/4 × 18 1/2 inches (38.1 × 23.5 × 47 cm)

Classification:

Sculpture

Credit Line:

125th Anniversary Acquisition. Gift of Melanie Gill in memory of her husband, Robert Lee Gill, and in honor of Jack L. Lindsey, 2001

Accession Number:

2001-193-1

Geography:

Made in North Carolina, United States, North and Central America

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