Edgar Alexander McKillop Sold at Auction Prices

b. 1879 - d. 1950

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    • EDGAR ALEXANDER MCKILLOP (NORTH CAROLINA, 1879-1950), ATTRIBUTED, FOLK ART CARVED WALNUT EAGLE
      Sep. 23, 2023

      EDGAR ALEXANDER MCKILLOP (NORTH CAROLINA, 1879-1950), ATTRIBUTED, FOLK ART CARVED WALNUT EAGLE

      Est: $5,000 - $8,000

      EDGAR ALEXANDER MCKILLOP (NORTH CAROLINA, 1879-1950), ATTRIBUTED, FOLK ART CARVED WALNUT EAGLE, from the solid, the stylized figure with glass eyes, no signature located, retaining original varnished surface. Circa 1930. 15 3/4" HOA. Published: Brunk, ed. - May We All Remember Well, A Journal of the History & Culture of Western North Carolina, volume 1, p. 48. Literature: See Sotheby's, Important Americana, 9/30/2010, lot 67 for a nearly identical example signed by McKillop. Catalogue Note: Edgar Alexander McKillop (1879-1950) was a self-taught carver who worked in Balfour, North Carolina. A trained blacksmith, McKillop was a multi-talented individual who also worked in wood and likely played multiple musical instruments. According to notes at the Colonial Williamsburg Foundation, the artist's daughter knew her father to be "a talented man. He could cook and sew and make rustic and fancy furniture. He could make anything from wood or any kind of metal. He was an inventor. We don't know of any kind of work that he could not do." McKillop's body of work includes carvings of animals, musical instruments, and historical figures, all executed in his characteristic whimsical style.

      Jeffrey S. Evans & Associates
    • EDGAR ALEXANDER MCKILLOP (1879-1950)
      Sep. 30, 2010

      EDGAR ALEXANDER MCKILLOP (1879-1950)

      Est: $8,000 - $20,000

      EDGAR ALEXANDER MCKILLOP (1879-1950) GEORGE WASHINGTON signed on the base; made by E.A. McKillop, Balfour, NC, Hand Carved. carved black walnut, with glass eyes height 28 in. by width 10 1/4 in. by depth 9 1/2 in.

      Sotheby's
    • EDGAR ALEXANDER MCKILLOP (1879-1950)
      Sep. 30, 2010

      EDGAR ALEXANDER MCKILLOP (1879-1950)

      Est: $8,000 - $20,000

      EDGAR ALEXANDER MCKILLOP (1879-1950) THE EAGLE Signed on the base; Made by E.A. McKillop, Balfour, NC. Hand Carved. carved black walnut with glass eyes height 16 in. by width 10 in. by depth 7 in.

      Sotheby's
    • EDGAR A. McKILLOP (1875-1950), w. 1926-1938
      Oct. 09, 2002

      EDGAR A. McKILLOP (1875-1950), w. 1926-1938

      Est: $15,000 - $25,000

      Candlestick with a Wildcat Stamped on underside: MADE BY E A. McKILLOP BALFOUR N.C HAND CARVED walnut, mother-of-pearl and bone 101/4in. high NOTES Years after Edgar A. McKillop's (1879-1950) death his daughter Lelia would describe his creativity as being "just in him, it was just in him. He didn't take any schooling; he didn't take any training. And he never done any carving until he just got that wood. And he just went to work on it, and he just turned out all these things. It was just in him-- just talented. That's all you can say." Although Edgar A. McKillop carved clocks, human figures, and musical instruments, animal figures were his favorite subject. McKillop carved a wide variety of whimsical figures and his more fanciful carvings were of exotic animals not found in the hills of North Carolina such as kangaroos, gorillas and rhinoceroses, some of which he may have found in Bible illustrations. Even those animals McKillop could have observed in nature are embued with fantastical qualities. Although McKillop had no formal training as a woodcarver he was deft at producing utilitarian objects such as pots, dish pans, keys, plows, furniture and a plethora of other practical objects including the chisels he used for sculpting. Around 1926 McKillop was offered four black walnut trees from a neighbor in exchange for removing the trees from the neighbor's property. This marked the beginning of his fascination with sculpture, which continued until 1938, the time of his wife's death. McKillop used a sawed log, which he hewed and then hammer and chiseled into the desired form before sanding smooth. He usually chiseled the entire wooden figure out of a single block even when working with large complex forms. McKillop ordered the glass eyes and used bones retrieved in the local Balfour area for fashioning the teeth. FOr more information on Edgar A. McKillop see Charles G. Zug III, "E.A. McKillop: 'A Born Carving Man'", Robert S. Brunk, ed. May We All Remember Well, Volume 1 (North Carolina, 1997).

      Christie's
    • EDGAR ALEXANDER MCKILLOP 1879 - 1950
      May. 23, 2002

      EDGAR ALEXANDER MCKILLOP 1879 - 1950

      Est: $30,000 - $50,000

      carved from a single piece of stained blackwalnut. The head inset with glass eyes, the mouth withpiano-key ivory teeth. Stamped on the baseMADE.BY.EA.MCKILLOP/BALFOUR.N.C./HAND.CARVED Edgar McKillop was born in Balfour, North Carolina, andis well known for his folk art carvings of men andanimals. Examples of his work are in the PhiladelphiaMuseum of Art, the Abby Aldrich Rockefeller Folk ArtCenter, Williamsburg, Virginia, and the Henry FordMuseum, Dearborn, Michigan.

      Sotheby's
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