Sentences with phrase «carving tombstones»

Moved by a religious vision at age 57, Nashville janitor William Edmondson began carving tombstones and whimsical figures out of stone in 1931, eventually becoming the first African American artist to have a solo show at the Museum of Modern Art, in New York.

Balka is a sculptor — his grandfather was a monumental stone mason, and his father carved tombstones.

The 1979 death of Holley's niece and nephew in a house fire led him to carve their tombstones, which marked the beginning of his career as an artist in Birmingham, Alabama.

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The carved date of death on many of these tombstones reads 19 — .

If you begin your Forex trading career using money that you really can not afford to lose or that would be put to a better use elsewhere in your life, you are basically carving your own trading tombstone.

There are tombstones to see, as well as richly carved stone pendants hanging off the ceiling.

From the carved wooden furniture to the ornate Dutch colonial tombstones used as floor pavers, I spent at least an hour wandering and admiring.

Today the four - storey tower is simply a reminder of the grand church which once stood here and is surrounded by the ruins of eight chapels, four altars, a convent which still has visible cells and numerous tombstones with legible carvings.

Barr's admiration for the tombstone carving of the Tennessee sculptor William Edmonson led to a small solo exhibition at MOMA in 1937, the museum's first for an African American and the first for an artist who lacked formal training.

I'm not ready to start carving out a tombstone for the iPad just yet because 12.6 million iPads a quarter represents a volume of product that a lot of hardware makers can only dream of, but sales do seem to be on a downward trajectory.