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Wood carver and sign maker from Vermont...he makes deliveries to galleries several times a year with his wears loaded on the back of his truck.
Lee began carving when he was a supervisor of construction projects. He traveled around the country building hospitals, hotels, etc. and on weekends would carve. He carved the different trades; iron workers on red iron, concrete finishers on the base of a piece. He carved a saying usually profane, that a trade said.
On a project in Manhattan, he took some pieces to the Museum of American Folk Art and it was well received. When a recession hit the construction industry he began carving full time. He has never looked back. Lee carves what he calls "wise old sayings" and at last count had 185 sayings that he carves.
The Outsider’s Art
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