Tuesday, October 20, 2020

Carving

Behold Elijah Pierce's (1892-1984) representation of the expulsion from Eden, including scenes of what led up to it and some of what followed, from 1931. Seeing this at the Columbus Art Museum (another museum!) gave me a sense of what Pierce's carving "Story of Job" (1936), in Milwaukee but included in a CMA exhibition catalog, must look like.

Elijah Pierce: Woodcarver (Columbus Museum of Art, 1992), 123