Johnathan Kendall, Nambe Mills, Folkart, Sodam And Gamorrah, Wood Carving, Santa Fe, New Mexico, Outsider Art

This is for a beautiful - good condition over all - painted cedar plank saints wall hanging originally done for Nambe Mills from the inscription on the back. Very Howard Finster esq. Shipping is available see site instructions. These are rather fragile so keep that in mind ... due to size it could cost a penny - I travel to Sante Fe a lot so if pick up there is better just let me know.

"Lot and His Daughters Fleeing Sondam and Gomorah" Approx - 48 inches tall and 10.5-11 inches wide. Ask about shipping or I go to Santa Fe alot if that is closer for pick up ?
He talks about workshops in Las Cruces, Taos, Sante Fe, New Mexico and Tucson Arizona.

Jonathan Kendall Carved Painted Wood Saint Cape Cod Folk Outsider Art. By the itinerant woodcarver and mystic of Provincetown Jonathan A. Kendall (American, 1939-2004 in Espanola, New Mexico), noted artist of the Wellfleet Preservation Hall doors and creator of a small oeuvre in a style some call "Byzantine Revival." Unsigned but unmistakable, this wall-hanging icon plaque depicts a bearded, crowned man with harp wearing colorful robe beside equally colorful architecture.
Johnathan has or had a beautiful large piece at the La Fonda Hotel, Santa Fe, New Mexico

Hard to find much on this artist. I found this on the interest from Art New England Contemporary Art and Culture written by - Mark Gabriele in 2011 for an exhibit they were having.

Even at a monastery so progressive that it was nicknamed “the holy hoboes,” Johnathan Kendall’s art provoked quite a stir. Founded by some very forward-thinking priests, the Holy Trinity Monastery in St. David Arizona is a place where the monks wear boots and cowboy hats, and the vow of monastic hospitality extends to the homeless and mentally ill. When American itinerant woodcarver Johnathan Kendall arrived there in the late 1970s, they took him in as they would any traveler. They even let Kendall establish a workshop to teach the monks to make icons, which he did for a couple of years. However, when it came to Kendall’s spectacular carving of the Holy Trinity, the prior drew the line. He wanted it removed from the chapel because it also included a very prominent devil.

In Wellfleet, Massachusetts, a vigorous controversy erupted over a set of entry doors Kendall had carved for the Our Lady of Lourdes Catholic church in 1976. When a new pastor came on the scene in 1987, he objected to the misshapen angels and gnarled saints, and wanted them taken down. In a story that made the front page of the Cape Cod Times, the locals resisted – and ultimately prevailed. The doors had become a town landmark, and the community wanted them to stay just where they were.

Kendall’s doors closed on a sacred space when the Archdiocese decided to abandon the building in 2000. This May, they will re-open to a secular space: Wellfleet’s new cultural center, Wellfleet Preservation Hall. The inaugural exhibition, Woodcarvings by Johnathan Kendall, will throw a spotlight on the career of an eccentric and enigmatic artist who passed through the Cape Cod town that one summer.

Kendall was Boston’s disowned and displaced son – ejected from his home on his eighteenth birthday by his mother, a Cabot. Or so he says. Some who knew him swear he worked “to the glory of God.” Others testify he was an outsider completely devoid of any moral compass. A restless vagrant, he spent some of his time in monasteries, some behind bars – and the rest on the road, passing through state after state in search of a welcome which before long, he’d wear out. He died at the age of sixty-five in Espanola, New Mexico.

Notes: See photos and description above - seems to be in good condition - colors are very bright

Fine Art, Other

18%

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