Object Record
Images
Metadata
Catalog Number |
2023.012.018 |
Object Name |
Painting |
Description |
This folk art painting depicts a man with black hair and a full beard, blue eyes, red lips, black boots, and a blue, full-body jumpsuit. The man is holding a double bit axe that is lodged in the back of a large yellow and black serpent. "During the colonies as Jacob Naillon was cutting trees huge rattlesnake crawl off the mountain into the Naillon settlement Jacob hit the rattlesnake in end of its tail with his double bit axe" / "The rattlesnake pull the ax out of Jacob hands craing off with ax sticking in the rattlesnakes tale. 3 weeks later a kinfolks come from VA, he told Jacob he saw a rattlesnake crawling through VA with double bit ax in sticking its back" / "Historical Tall Tale Folk-Lore painting in Naillon Cocke Co Tenasee" is painted in black text amidst the blended green and brown background of the painting. The painting is signed "Jimmy Morrow 12-21-2013" in black paint in the bottom right corner. The painted is framed within tan-colored wood. The back of the frame is painted white. |
Date |
December 21, 2013 |
Artist |
Rev. Jimmy Morrow |
Dimensions |
H-23.875 W-30.75 D-1.125 inches |
Collection |
Sacred and/or Religious Artifacts Collection |
Place of Origin |
USA/Tennessee/Cocke County/Del Rio |
Material |
acrylic paints on salvaged lumber |
Subjects |
sacred Appalachia folk art |
Search Terms |
sacred Appalachia folk art |