Lot 183: William Edmondson (1874-1951)

William Edmondson (1874-1951) Mother and Child carved limestone 11¼ in. high

Oceanville, New Jersey, Noyes Museum of Art, 16 March - 18 May 1986. Philadelphia, Janet Fleisher Gallery, Miracles, 14 January - 4 March 1995. Nashville, Tennessee, Cheekwood Museum of Art, and traveling, The Art of William Edmondson, 28 January - 23 April 2000.

Edmund L. Fuller, Visions in Stone: The Sculpture of William Edmondson (Pittsburgh, 1973), pl. 57. Jay Johnson, William C. Ketchum, Jr. and Robert Bishop, American Folk Art of the Twentieth Century (New York, 1983), p. 78. Robert Farris Thompson, Bobby L. Lovett, Rusty Freeman, et al., The Art of William Edmondson (Jackson, Mississippi, 1999), pp. 132-133, cat. no. 21.

Sold, American Folk Art Museum: Gala Auction, New York, 1972