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

This Side of the Mountain: Troy Nash Baber (1921-1989) This Side of the Mountain Troy Nash Baber (1921-1989) by Bob Henry Baber Troy Nash Baber, my father, was one of ten children raised by Henry and Tessie Baber in the Cold Knob area of Greenbrier County, West Virginia. Troy exhibited an artistic bent early in life and painted his first work, "The Cows barn paints on a piece of corrugated cardboard at the age of thirteen. Part of the great Appalachian out- Coming Home From The Creek," with posthumously honored Baber as the fea- tured artist in their Fall Color Tour Exhibition and the Barretts offered the migration that started for him with World War II, Troy eventually settled on Long Island where for almost twenty years he was a commercial artist and pressman for the the A&P food chain. It was his drawings of Santa Claus, the Easter Bunny, and the Thanksgiving Gobbler that graced every A&P window from Maine to Virginia. Company policy dictated that the works go unsigned, but in later years he assured me, a sly name or initials into every sketch. By the late 1960s a severe mental de- piece for display. Throughout his life Troy gave away, or sold for a 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, 1990
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This Side of the Mountain Troy Nash Baber (1921-1989) by Bob Henry Baber Troy Nash Baber, my father, was one of ten children raised by Henry and Tessie Baber in the Cold Knob area of Greenbrier County, West Virginia. Troy exhibited an artistic bent early in life and painted his first work, "The Cows barn paints on a piece of corrugated cardboard at the age of thirteen. Part of the great Appalachian out- Coming Home From The Creek," with posthumously honored Baber as the fea- tured artist in their Fall Color Tour Exhibition and the Barretts offered the migration that started for him with World War II, Troy eventually settled on Long Island where for almost twenty years he was a commercial artist and pressman for the the A&P food chain. It was his drawings of Santa Claus, the Easter Bunny, and the Thanksgiving Gobbler that graced every A&P window from Maine to Virginia. Company policy dictated that the works go unsigned, but in later years he assured me, a sly name or initials into every sketch. By the late 1960s a severe mental de- piece for display. Throughout his life Troy gave away, or sold for a

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Appalachian Review – University of North Carolina Press

Published: Jan 8, 1990

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