Edgar Tolson

Place: Lee City

Born: 1904

Death: 1984

Biography:

Edgar Tolson (1904–1984) was a woodcarver from Kentucky who became a well-known folk artist. He was born in Lee City, Wolfe County, Kentucky as the fourth of eleven children and educated through the sixth grade. He worked as a carpenter and stonemason and was married twice, fathering eighteen children in all. From his youth, woodcarving was always ...