Black walnut, 13”L x 13”W x 61”H. No longer available.

This large black walnut sculpture was carved from the outer part of the trunk of the tree rescued by my father from the banks of the Leon River in Central Texas in 1957. Since the outer part of the trunk could not be cut into dimensional planks, it was never used for furniture construction but was stored with other cracked or otherwise unusable pieces until I found it over 60 years later. The walnut is mounted on a large block of limestone that was cut by hand to be the key stone of an arch over the window of a 19th century stone building in Hamilton, Texas.