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Lot 48

Rude Osolnik: A Life Turning Wood, Limited Edition

Estimate: $200 - $400

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text by Jane Kessler and Dick Burrows, Louisville, Kentucky: Crescent Hill Books, 1997, number 136 of a limited edition of 500, signed by Rude Osolnik, bound in half calf leather over green cloth boards with gilt lettering, in fitted cloth board case, 2-3/8 x 11-3/4 x 11-3/4 in.; with a turned wood candlestick by Osolnik Originals, unsigned, 7-1/4 in.

Note: This lot is accompanied by two exhibition catalogs: Rude and Daphne Osolnik: A Family Portrait, published by Arrowmont School of Arts and Crafts, 2007, and Rude Osolnik: A Retrospective, published by the Southern Highland Handicraft Guild in 1989. The lot is also accompanied by Turning Points vol. 10, no. 3, Philadelphia: Wood Turning Center, 1997, which contains an article about Rude Osolnik (pg. 15-19).

Provenance: Collection of Rude Osolnik, Berea, Kentucky

Condition

book good overall, light wear to extremities; candlestick good overall

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