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Plevna, MO Bob Smithy 1930- Sculpture (metal and paint)

Information: Bob Smithy, born in 1930, has worked as a trucker in the Midwest since the 1950s. Initially to keep his own trucks on the road he built a small workshop, then later expanded his service to repair other vehicles. In the late 1980s, he built a pair of male and female figures from welded scrap parts to stand beside the road as an advertisement for his enterprise. As new ideas came to him for other sculptures, he added cowboys and Indians on horseback, a devil and angel tableau, and a skeleton to the roadside lineup. Nearly 20 pieces stand near his shop today, all built of found objects and repair leftovers. Dilettante Press

	Reference / Links:
	DVD - Rare Visions and Roadside Revelations, "Back to the Breadbasket" Dilettante Press: "Bob Smithy" Truman University: "From Trash To Treasure" Dilettante Press Detour Art—the Book “Rare Visions and Roadside Revelations Coast to Coast Travel-o-Pedia” by Randy Mason, et. al., Kansas City Star Books, 2009.
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Bibliography: "Detour Art—Outsider, Folk Art, and Visionary Folk Art Environments Coast to Coast, Art and Photographs from the Collection of Kelly Ludwig" by Kelly Ludwig, Kansas City Star Books, 2007. On DVD - Rare Visions and Roadside Revelations, "Back to the Breadbasket," KCPT, Kansas City Public Television, 2004. "Self Taught, Outsider, and Folk Art—A guide to American Artists, Locations and Resources" by Betty-Carol Sellen with Cynthia J. Johnson, McFarland & Company, 2000. "Rare Visions and Roadside Revelations Coast to Coast Travel-o-Pedia" by Randy Mason, et. al., Kansas City Star Books, 2009.

Credit: © Randy Mason/Mike Murphy, "Rare Visions" all rights reserved.

Credit: Randy Mason/Mike Murphy, "Rare Visions"

From the collection of Kelly Ludwig Credit: Randy Mason/Mike Murphy, "Rare Visions"

Credit: Randy Mason/Mike Murphy, "Rare Visions"

Blockhead, on location From the collection of Kelly Ludwig Credit: Kelly Ludwig

Big Angel, on location From the collection of Kelly Ludwig Credit: Kelly Ludwig

Credit: Randy Mason/Mike Murphy, "Rare Visions"

Credit: Randy Mason/Mike Murphy, "Rare Visions"

Credit: Randy Mason/Mike Murphy, "Rare Visions"

Credit: Kelly Ludwig

Credit: Randy Mason/Mike Murphy, "Rare Visions"

Credit: Randy Mason/Mike Murphy, "Rare Visions"

Small man, on location. From the collection of Kelly Ludwig Credit: Kelly Ludwig

Credit: Kelly Ludwig

Blockhead From the collection of Kelly Ludwig Credit: Kelly Ludwig

Small Man From the collection of Kelly Ludwig Credit: Kelly Ludwig

Credit: Kelly Ludwig

Credit: Randy Mason/Mike Murphy, "Rare Visions"

Angel 2004 Metal sculpture (spray paint, discarded hot water heater, and other found objects) Size: 72" x 72" x 24" From the collection of Kelly Ludwig, featured in the book “Detour Art,” 2007. Credit: Kelly Ludwig

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