Elijah Pierce's America by Nancy Ireson HARDBACK 9781911300878

Elijah Pierce's America\nby Nancy Ireson\nHardback\nEnglish\n\nDelivery\nUsually delivered in 8\u20139 working days.\n\nBrand new copy from BookCurl \u2013 the UK independent online bookseller.\n\n------------------------------\nBook details\n------------------------------\nAuthor: Nancy Ireson\nTitle: Elijah Pierce's America\nFormat: Hardback\nLanguage: English\nTopic: Individual artists, art monographs\nPublisher: Paul Holberton Publishing Ltd\nPublication year: 2020\nISBN-13: 9781911300878\nISBN-10: 1911300873\n\n------------------------------\nDescription\n------------------------------\nElijah Pierce (1892\u20131984) was born the youngest son of a former slave on a Mississippi farm. He began carving at an early age when his father gave him his first pocketknife. Pierce became known for his wood carvings nationally and then internationally for the first time in the 1970s. Accompanying a major exhibition at the Barnes Foundation, Philadelphia, this publication seeks to revisit the.