Carved Colonial Winged Effigy on arched slate | Small | Updike
Carved Colonial Winged Effigy on arched slate | Small | Updike
Hand carved colonial death's head design by renowned local stone carver Michael Updike. Arched reclaimed slate.
Item Detail:
- Unique, one-of-a-kind creation
- Signed by artist
- Dimensions - 7" x 4
About the Artist |
Michael Updike graduated from Mass College of Art and received his MFA from Vermont College. He is a long-standing North Shore artist of unique, nuanced works that mirror the legacy stone carving traditions of New England.
Trained as a sculptor, he recently began creating artistic personalized memorial stones as well as unique slate carvings. His work challenges the pictorial paradigms of additive imaging. “I honed my carving skills on old slate roof shingles which then became my primary medium. I use slate with outward signs of wear. Paint, tar, nail holes, fractures, chips and flaking tell of the slates former utilitarian life. The scars of its history rest on its surface while I cut through the patina revealing freshe
Materials
Materials
DETAILS
For Distressed Caps
Iconic legacy OFA
cap features an unstructured crown, fully curved visor and an open back snap
closure. Designed and tailored with our classic fit.
Fabric : Cotton
Twill
Unconstructed with
adjustable snap
For Silver & Salmon
Legacy classic EZA
cap features an unstructured crown, fully curved visor and an open back strap
closure. Designed and tailored in our classic fit in garment wash cotton twill.
Fabric : Cotton
Twill
Unconstructed with
strap closure
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