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c. 1935-1938

Mountain Lion

Edgar Alexander McKillop

American (active Balfour, North Carolina), 1879 - 1950

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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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