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Frank Polk BIOGRAPHY
1908 Louisville, Kentucky - 2000 Prescott Valley, Arizona. Known for: Sculptor-western subjects, wood carver.
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Born in Louisville, Kentucky to parents Frank and Rose Herman Polk, Frank Polk was a self-taught wood carver who became known as the "cowboy whittler" for his carving of rodeo and cowboy scenes in... Read full biography
Born in Louisville, Kentucky to parents Frank and Rose Herman Polk, Frank Polk was a self-taught wood carver who became known as the "cowboy whittler" for his carving of rodeo and cowboy scenes in basswood. In the mid 1960s, he began sculpting in wax and then bronzing his pieces. Of his work, he... Read full biography
Born in Louisville, Kentucky to parents Frank and Rose Herman Polk, Frank Polk was a self-taught wood carver who became known as the "cowboy whittler" for his carving of rodeo and cowboy scenes in basswood. In the mid 1960s, he began sculpting in wax and then bronzing his pieces. Of his work, he said: "I am overly precise on authenticity and action, having experienced most of my themes, or at least seen them firsthand. (Samuels 412). With his family, he moved to Phoenix, Arizona in 1911 when he... Read full biography
Born in Louisville, Kentucky to parents Frank and Rose Herman Polk, Frank Polk was a self-taught wood carver who became known as the "cowboy whittler" for his carving of rodeo and cowboy scenes in basswood. In the mid 1960s, he began sculpting in wax and then bronzing his pieces. Of his work, he said: "I am overly precise on authenticity and action, having experienced most of my themes, or at least seen them firsthand. (Samuels 412). With his family, he moved to Phoenix, Arizona in 1911 when he was three years old, and at age 10, entered his first rodeo. His family later moved to Mayer near Prescott where he graduated from high school. As a teenager, he toured the rodeos around Phoenix with a trained burro, having begun to rodeo at age ten... Read full biography
Born in Louisville, Kentucky to parents Frank and Rose Herman Polk, Frank Polk was a self-taught wood carver who became known as the "cowboy whittler" for his carving of rodeo and cowboy scenes in basswood. In the mid 1960s, he began sculpting in wax and then bronzing his pieces. Of his work, he said: "I am overly precise on authenticity and action, having experienced most of my themes, or at least seen them firsthand. (Samuels 412). With his family, he moved to Phoenix, Arizona in 1911 when he was three years old, and at age 10, entered his first rodeo. His family later moved to Mayer near Prescott where he graduated from high school. As a teenager, he toured the rodeos around Phoenix with a trained burro, having begun to rodeo at age ten when he performed at Prescott with the burro. He continued the act for 20 years. &nb... Read full biography
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Born in Louisville, Kentucky to parents Frank and Rose Herman Polk, Frank Polk was a self-taught wood carver who became known as the "cowboy whittler" for his carving of rodeo and cowboy scenes in basswood. In the mid 1960s, he began sculpting in wax and then bronzing his pieces. Of his work, he said: "I am overly precise on authenticity and action, having experienced most of my themes, or at least seen them firsthand. (Samuels 412)
With his family, he moved to Phoenix, Arizona in 1911 when he was three years old, and at age 10, entered his first rodeo. His family later moved to Mayer near Prescott where he graduated from high school. As a teenager, he toured the rodeos around Phoenix wit...But wait, there's more...
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