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About Shepherd Barrett
- Shepherd M.
- Barrett (born c.
- December 6, 1889) was an American African American artist from Huntingdon Valley, Pennsylvania.
- Over the course of a more than fifty year artistic career he created in excess of 225 sculptures.
- His medium of choice was carved wood, more particularly peach stone carvings.
- These sculptures were created using a variety of instruments such as knives, picks and needle sized manually operated drills and with such practiced skill that a work might be created in as little as two hours.
- Despite their diminutive size, his works were detailed, such as monkeys with facial expressions, fingers and toes. In addition to his work as a peach stone carver, for which he was featured in the May 1962 edition of Ebony Magazine, Barrett also was a more general artist, and was a player of the violin, cello and viola.
- His hobbies included being a magician and ventriloquist.
- He worked as a fireman in Bryn Athyn, Pennsylvania from approximately 1953 to 1962.
- He died in Montgomery County, Pennsylvania in 1967.
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