For his own delight and that of two young grandsons, farmer and woodworker Clark Coe constructed a larger-than-life mechanical tableau in a streamside clearing on his property in Killingworth, Connecticut. Applying personal ingenuity to vocational skills, Coe built approximately forty figures, a dam, a sluiceway, and a small water wheel.

Clark Coe, Killingworth Image, Man on a Hog, ca. 1890, mixed media: carved, assembled, and painted wood, tinned iron, iron nails, textile remnants, hair, and fabric, man: 30 1 ⁄ 4 x 20 x 14 3 ⁄ 8 in. (76. 7 x 50. 8 x 36. 5 cm.) hog: 20 7 ⁄ 8 x 38 x 13 1 ⁄ 4 in. (53. 0 x 96. 5 x 33. 5 cm.), Smithsonian American Art Museum, Gift of ...

Today Clark Coe is widely recognized as an important American folk artist, with his “Man On a Hog” located in the Renwick Gallery of the Smithsonian American Art Museum. “The Bandmaster”, pictured here, was among the water-driven figures and is owned by the Killingworth Historical Society.

Clark Coe, a farmer and basketmaker from Killingworth, Connecticut, who also sold ax handles in nearby New Haven, constructed a large, ingenious assemblage of articulated outdoor figures in a clearing next to a stream on his property; only a handful of them still exist.

COE, CLARK W. (1847–1919) was well-known to residents of the small town of Killingworth, Connecticut, where he produced his Killingworth Images.

2022年7月17日 · In the 1890s Clark Coe created an attraction of life-sized moving figures called the Killingworth Images on his farm on Green Hill Road.

Filk artist Clark Cloe was born in 1947 in Madison, CT. His work can be found in the public collection of the Smithsonian American Art Museum in Washington, DC. Coe died in 1919 in Killingworth, CT. Bio updated as of 2023.

2024年10月26日 · In Coe’s waterpowered fantasy- world, folk-art wrestlers wrestled without wearying (except during droughts and freezes), sawyers sawed tirelessly, a mother rocked her baby’s cradle endlessly, the preacher preached without pause, and a naughty child was perpetually spanked, all while twenty-two smaller but no less whimsical figures enjoyed ...

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