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This Side of the Mountain: Troy Nash Baber (1921-1989)

This Side of the Mountain: Troy Nash Baber (1921-1989) Bob Henry Baber Appalachian Heritage, Volume 18, Number 3, Summer 1990, pp. 3-4 (Article) Published by The University of North Carolina Press DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/aph.1990.0009 For additional information about this article https://muse.jhu.edu/article/438281/summary Access provided at 19 Feb 2020 21:34 GMT from JHU Libraries This Side of the Mountain Troy Nash Baber (1921-1989) by Bob Henry Baber Troy Nash Baber, my father, was one Greenbrier County, West Virginia. Troy of ten children raised by Henry and exhibited an artistic bent early in life and Tessie Baber in the Cold Knob area of painted his first work, "The Cows 3 posthumously honored Baber as the fea- Coming Home From The Creek," with tured artist in their Fall Color Tour barn paints on a piece of corrugated Exhibition and the Barretts offered the cardboard at the age of thirteen. Part of the great Appalachian out- piece for display. migration that started for him with Throughout his life Troy gave away, or World War II, Troy eventually settled on sold for a pittance, his portraits of Ap- Long Island where for almost twenty palachia. He knew firsthand that most people here couldn't afford art, though years he was a commercial artist and they loved http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Appalachian Review University of North Carolina Press

This Side of the Mountain: Troy Nash Baber (1921-1989)

Appalachian Review , Volume 18 (3) – Jan 8, 2014

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Abstract

Bob Henry Baber Appalachian Heritage, Volume 18, Number 3, Summer 1990, pp. 3-4 (Article) Published by The University of North Carolina Press DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/aph.1990.0009 For additional information about this article https://muse.jhu.edu/article/438281/summary Access provided at 19 Feb 2020 21:34 GMT from JHU Libraries This Side of the Mountain Troy Nash Baber (1921-1989) by Bob Henry Baber Troy Nash Baber, my father, was one Greenbrier County, West Virginia. Troy of ten children raised by Henry and exhibited an artistic bent early in life and Tessie Baber in the Cold Knob area of painted his first work, "The Cows 3 posthumously honored Baber as the fea- Coming Home From The Creek," with tured artist in their Fall Color Tour barn paints on a piece of corrugated Exhibition and the Barretts offered the cardboard at the age of thirteen. Part of the great Appalachian out- piece for display. migration that started for him with Throughout his life Troy gave away, or World War II, Troy eventually settled on sold for a pittance, his portraits of Ap- Long Island where for almost twenty palachia. He knew firsthand that most people here couldn't afford art, though years he was a commercial artist and they loved

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