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Ossie Lee "Geech" Samuels believes that the shape of the wood determines what he carves. His surreal sculptures show a wide variety of subjects, including unicorns, real and fantastical animals, family members, black heroes, and futuristic automobiles. Although he is color-blind, Samuels paints his sculptures with an array of colors and a "secret mixture" of sawdust, glitter, and glue. (Chuck and Jan Rosenak, Contemporary American Folk Art: A Collector's Guide, 1996, and Betty-Carol Sellen, Self Taught, Outsider, and Folk Art, 2000)"There's a story to go with everything, and the stories just keep popping out." O. L. Samuels, quoted in Chuck and Jan Rosenak, Contemporary American Folk Art: A Collector's Guide, 1996
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Physical Object
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Carved And Painted Wood, Glass, And Glitter
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Smithsonian American Art Museum, Gift of Chuck and Jan Rosenak and museum purchase through the Luisita L. and Franz H. Denghausen Endowment
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Smithsonian American Art Museum

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Smithsonian Institution

Keywords

  1. Animal
  2. Animals
  3. Dog
  4. Dogs
  5. Samuels, O. L. Geech

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