Paintings
"Portrait of Joe Vaughn" by Boyd Carr
- Item Number
- 121
- Estimated Value
- 600 USD
- Opening Bid
- 200 USD
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Item Description
22" wide x 30" high. Painting. Wood frame on canvas. Signed. Undated.
Donated by Kirk Judd.
About the Artist
Crockett Boyd Carr, Jr., 88, of Bedford passed away on June 18, 2020 at his residence. He was born on May 27, 1932 in Roanoke, Virginia to the late Crockett Boyd Carr and Alice Johansen Carr.
Boyd was an outstanding athlete in both football and track at Roanoke College and the University of Virginia, graduating from UVA with a degree in aeronautical engineering. After serving as an officer in the U.S. Air Force and a stint in his family’s optics business, he renewed his lifelong interest in serious art. Boyd was an accomplished and eclectic artist, cartoonist, and writer. Over the years he created an abundance of work in many styles, including oil paintings, wood carvings, wire and cardboard sculptures, and computer-generated drawings. Beginning in the late 1970s and through the 1980s and 90s, Boyd traveled the states of Virginia and West Virginia sketching whatever caught his fancy, capturing many structures and places now vanished from the landscape. He published several books of poetry and essays, as well as a book of his unique philosophy of life titled My.th.
A long-time resident of West Virginia, he was a regular contributor to respected regional magazines, including Hill & Valley, Grab A Nickel, Laurel Review, Appalachian Journal, and The West Virginia Hillbilly. His brilliant pen and ink drawings and pithy humorous captions won him a place as Staff Artist or Artist in Residence for the The Mountain State Arts and Crafts Fair in Ripley, WV, The West Virginia Hillbilly, Appalachian Journal, the West Virginia Art News, the Episcopal Diocese of WV, and West Virginia Writers, Inc.
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