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The temptation: Edgar Tolson and the genesis of twentieth-century folk art

作者：Julia S. ArderyJulia S. Ardery - 1998 - Art - 353 頁
Drawing on in-depth interviews with collectors and dealers, museum and auction house officials, and Tolson's own family members and friends, the book traces a ...


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Edgar Tolson (1904-1984) was a woodcarver from Kentucky who became a well-known folk artist.

He was born in Trent Fork, Wolfe County as the fourth of eleven children and educated through the sixth grade. He worked as a carpenter and stonemason and was married twice, fathering eighteen children in all. From his youth, woodcarving was always a hobby of his. Although Tolson began working in the tradition of the Appalachian woodcarvers before him, after suffering a stroke in 1957, he became a full-time woodcarver and artist, and his subject matter grew increasingly idiosyncratic.

Tolson first came to national attention through the Grassroots Craftsmen, an initiative of Lyndon Johnson's War on Poverty that helped Appalachian craftspeople to sell their works. Ralph Rinzler of the Smithsonian Institution was impressed by Tolson's figures, and included them in the 1971 Festival of American Folklife. University of Kentucky professor Michael Hall also became Tolson's primary dealer at this time, and his work was included in the 1973 Whitney Biennial.

Tolson is best known for his "Fall of Man" cycle, a series of carvings portraying the story of Adam and Eve.

External links

• Tolson's entry on the Top 50 Works at the University of Kentucky Art Museum

family name TOLSON
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English (Yorkshire): patronymic from the personal name Toll.

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1. English: from the Middle English personal name Toll, Old English Toll, or Old Norse Tóli, the latter being derived from a reduced form of a compound name such as þórleifr (composed of the elements þórr, name of the Scandinavian god of thunder (see Thor) + leifr ‘relic’) or þórleikr (composed of the elements þórr + leikr ‘sport’, ‘play’).

2. English: topographic name from toll ‘clump of trees’, a dialect term of Kent, Sussex, and Hampshire.

3. German: nickname from Middle High German tol, dol ‘foolish’, also ‘pretty’ or ‘handsome’.

4. German: from a reduced form of the personal name Bartholomäus (see Bartholomew).