Ernest "Popeye" Reed

(Jackson, Ohio, 1919 - 1985, Fort Jackson, South Carolina)

North America, American

Reed, a southern Ohio stone and wood carver, often depicted subjects from the Bible; the nude female with the reptile may represent Eve. He also enjoyed reading about and portraying figures from Greek mythology (like the museum's Untited figure of a harpy, a figure with the head of a woman and the body of a bird).

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