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?' 3,> The Gift of the Stranger THE PINE MOUNTAIN PRINTS OF JOHN A. SPELMAN III For at least as long as this magazine's existence I have wanted to present a sampling of the prints John A. Spelman made during his years (1937-1941) as worker at the Pine Mountain Settlement School in Harlan County, Kentucky. For a much longer time--going back to the late 1930s and early 1940s and the old Mountain Life & Work magazine of those days in which some of his prints appeared--I have had an abiding appreciation for his renderings of mountain cabin scenes and landscapes by means of linoleum and wood block cuts. It may be that patience is a catalyzer after all--as well as an endurance--for almost as gratuitously as those prints were made, all that diverted formerly converged recently to make this sampling possible. John A. Spelman was twenty-five years old when he came to Pine Mountain. He had graduated from the University of Minnesota in 1934 with at least one of his interests represented by a major in English, but according to his own words he had been drawing houses for years, not thinking of them as art, but very
Appalachian Review – University of North Carolina Press
Published: Jan 8, 1983
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