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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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Davenport's Art Reference: The Gold Edition
2005Davenport, Ray2,421 pagesWho's Who in American Art, 2004 2003 - 2004 (25th Edition)
2004McGowan, Alison C (Editor)1,512 pagesCowboy Artists of America
2002Duty, Michael; Don Hedgpeth216 pages (color)Who Was Who in American Art, 1564-1975: Three Volumes
1999Falk, Peter Hastings (Editor)3,724 pagesCowboy Artists of America Thirty-Third Annual Exhibition
1998
(Exhibition catalog)Phoenix Art Museum80 pages (color)Who's Who in American Art, 1993-1994, 20th Edition (American Federation of Arts)
1993Bowker R R1,473 pagesMaster Index 1971-1993 Artists in Southwest Art
1993Southwest Art64 pagesCowboy Artists of America
1988
(Exhibition catalog)Reynolds, Catherine153 pages (color)Who's Who in American Art-1986 1986
1986Jaques Cattell Press1,292 pagesMantle Fielding's Dictionary of American Painters, Sculptors & Engravers
1986Opitz, Glenn B (editor)1,081 pagesDictionary of American Sculptors: 18th Century to Present
1984Opitz, Glenn B (editor)656 pagesVisions West The Story of Cowboy Artists of America Museum
1983Dedera, Don84 pages (color)Contemporary Western Artists
1982Samuels, Peggy and Harold608 pages (color)Cowboy Artists of America Sixteenth Annual Exhibition
1981
(Exhibition catalog)Cowboy Artists of America80 pages (color)F-F-F-Frank Polk An Uncommonly Frank Autobiography
1978Polk, Frank125 pagesTen Years with the Cowboy Artist A Complete History
1976
(Exhibition catalog)Howard, James K213 pagesWho's Who in American Art, 1976 12th Edition
1976Jaques Cattell Press756 pagesThe Illustrated Biographical Encyclopedia of Artists of the American West
1976Samuels, Peggy and Harold549 pagesBronzes of the American West
1973Broder, Patricia Janis; Harold McCracken (Intro)429 pages (color)Cowboy Artists of America Sixth Annual Exhibition 1971
1971
(Exhibition catalog)Cowboy Artists Of America40 pages (color)Cowboy Artists of America Third Annual Exhibit
1968
(Exhibition catalog)Krakel, Dean (Introduction)16 pages