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Large Chuncky Roosters
Carved, painted wood
22" x 5" x 13"
$130 each

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Warty Roosters
Gourd & carved, painted wood
19" x 5" x 15"
$100 each
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Large Fox Eating Chicken
Carved, painted wood • 12" x 6" x 34"
$300

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Possum with Babies
Carved, painted wood • 11" x 6" x 29"
$300

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Cats with Mice
Carved, painted wood
8" x 5" x 18"
$135 each

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Long-Eared Rabbits
Carved, painted wood
10" x 6" x 7"
$100
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Wooden Frog
Carved, painted
wood
4 1/2" x 8" x 10"
$100

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Gourd Frog
Gourd & carved, painted wood
7 1/2" x 4" x 5"
$70

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Terrapin
Shell & carved, painted wood
9" x 5" x 10"
$100

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Cow
Carved, painted wood
10" x 2 1/2" x 8"
$100

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Small Pig
Carved, painted wood
7 1/2" x 3" x 12 1/2"
$100
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Large Pig with Corn
Carved, painted wood • 10" x 16" x 17"
$250

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Sitting Cow
Carved, painted wood • 21 1/2" x 8 1/2" x 16"
$200

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Large Gourd Rooster
Gourd & carved, painted wood
32" x 12" x 22"
$220 each

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Medium Carved Rooster
Carved, painted wood
16" x 4" x 14"
$130 each

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Gourd Raccoon
Carved, painted wood • 11" x 12" x 22"
$200

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Standing Dog with Stick
Carved, painted wood
7" x 4" x 17"
$100

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Sitting Dog with Stick
Carved, painted wood
8" x 4" x 7"
$100
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Ram
Carved, painted wood
9 1/2" x 3" x 13"
$100
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Skunk
Carved, painted wood
8" x 3" x 10"
$100

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Large Bear with Fish
Carved, painted wood • 9" x 5" x 20"
$250

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Small Gourd Turkey
Carved, painted wood
13" x 9 1/2" x 5"
$120
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Small Fox
Carved, painted wood
8" x 3" x 22"
$130

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Eagle
Carved, painted wood
18" x 13" x 16"
$220

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Giraffe
Carved, painted wood
7 1/2" x 2" x 16 1/2"
$100
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Noah's Ark
Carved, painted wood • 20" x 24" x 11"
$500

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Lonnie, born in 1949, and Twyla, born in 1952, were both raised
along the Jackson/Laurel county line in Eastern Kentucky, where
they are now cattle farmers. They have converted one of their milking
barns into a studio.
Lonnie attributes his talent as a carver to his great-grandfather
who was a carver in Switzerland before immigrating to the United
States in 1883. Aside from a cane he carved for his grandfather
as a child, Lonnie's first pieces were small, carved animals he
made during the 1970s. In the early 1980s, he did piece-work for
the crafts-marketing program at Berea College, cutting and carving
out basic animal forms for other craftsmen to finish. By the mid-1980s,
he began making his own designs for animals, which he carved and
painted.
Around 1990, Twyla began working with Lonnie and expanded their
output by taking over most of the painting responsibilities in creating
the whimsical and finely crafted, carved and painted animals for
which they have become well-known.
The lovely rural setting of their farm has inspired a menagerie
of animals, both wild and domesticated. Among their favorite subjects
are possums, skunks, foxes eating chickens, pigs eating corn, cats,
dogs with sticks in their mouths, turtles, roosters, and guinea
hens. Some of the animals, like the foxes, possums and skunks, are
fairly realistically painted with light strokes of paint over dark
brown to suggest fur. The pigs, cats, dogs, and fowl, by contrast,
are finished in a variety of color combinations and patterns, such
as bull's eyes, star bursts, large and small polka dots, and small
strokes of color.
The Moneys' work is represented in private
collections throughout the United States. Their work was included
in the 1994 traveling exhibition, Generations of Kentucky, An Exhibition
of Folk Art with Photographs by Guy Mendes, organized by the Kentucky
Art and Craft Foundation in Louisville. Their work is also in the
permanent collection of the Owensboro Museum of Fine Art in Owensboro,
Ky.
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