Jim Linderman blog about surface, wear, form and authenticity in self-taught art, outsider art, antique american folk art, antiques and photography. Dull tool and dim bulb were the only swear words my father ever used. Items from the Jim Linderman collection of vernacular photography, folk art, ephemera and curiosities. (Note: if anyone believes an image contained violates their rights or insults their intelligence, simply point it out and I will remove)
Oklahoma Antique Folk Art Carving Totem
Snapshot circa 1930 of a folk art carved totem pole. Reverse indicates the photo was developed at Kodak Finishing on Broadway in Oklahoma City. Ed Galloway's famous Totem Park was some 100 miles from Oklahoma City in Foyil. It is said he began his totem pole around 1937. Could this have been another Oklahoma carver? Or an earlier photograph of what became his environment? Like this picture, Galloway used fish and "goo-goo" eyeballs as well.
Folk Art snapshot collection Jim Linderman (Link to In Situ: American Folk Art in Place)
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