Carved wooden bust self-portrait by Fred Carter
- Identifier
- 000024810
- Alt Identifier
- fc.01
- Asset Type
- Description (Wooden bust carved by Fred Carter, of Clintwood, VA. This sculpture is a self-portrait. Photo credit: Appalshop, taken by Roger May.
Biographical information courtesy of Indigo Arts Gallery:Fred Carter was born in Duffield, VA., on the North Fork of the Clinch River, in 1911. In 1938 he moved to Clintwood, in the coal fields of far southwestern Virginia, to run his uncle's hardware store.
Fred Carter was the master of what artist, film-maker and writer Jack Wright has called "Appalachian Art Brut". A largely self-taught artist, Fred Carter did not turn to the wood sculpture for which he is known until he was in his fifties.
) - Wooden bust carved by Fred Carter, of Clintwood, VA. This sculpture is a self-portrait. Photo credit: Appalshop, taken by Roger May.
Biographical information courtesy of Indigo Arts Gallery:Fred Carter was born in Duffield, VA., on the North Fork of the Clinch River, in 1911. In 1938 he moved to Clintwood, in the coal fields of far southwestern Virginia, to run his uncle's hardware store.
Fred Carter was the master of what artist, film-maker and writer Jack Wright has called "Appalachian Art Brut". A largely self-taught artist, Fred Carter did not turn to the wood sculpture for which he is known until he was in his fifties.
- Creator
- Fred Carter (artist)
