Raised on a ranch in the hill country near Mason, Texas and still working from a studio on that property, Gene Zesch is a wood carver of caricatures of the American West. His figures tell the story of the people of dying ranches in that area, and he gets at these truths through humor.
His first exposure to wood carving was a visit to Santa Fe during his Army service, and his first carving was an old camp cook and the second a sad-looking soldier. The demand for his wood carving became so (showing 500 of 2222 characters). |
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