An axman from Paul Bunyan's logging crew from the Redwood Empire of northern California takes a breather on the Golden Gate Bridge as he carries Paul's ax and rifle back up north.
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An axman from Paul Bunyan's logging crew from the Redwood Empire of northern California takes a breather on the Golden Gate Bridge as he carries Paul's ax and rifle back up north.
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Scenes of Paul Bunyan and Babe the Blue Ox are stained glass murals created by Virginia Darce from 1936 to 1938. Commisioned for the Tap Room in the Timberline Lodge they have been restored and can currently be viewed in the lodge's Blue Ox Bar.
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Just the guy for chopping down some king-sized trees is legendary Paul Bunyan.
Paul Bunyan attended the annual Christmas Carnival at Cobo Hall to show the
Detroiters his skills as America's greatest lumberjack.
Paul Bunyan then moved on to Oscoda, Michigan to oversee the annual
Paul Bunyan Festival held in his honor.
Current location of Paul Bunyan in Oscoda, Michigan.
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Shoulder deep in the big boots of Paul Bunyan, two youngsters are intrigued by the
massive footwear. Paul got the new boots for the city's 125th anniversary celebration.
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Paul Bunyan and Mike Wells, sitting on Paul's axe, take a break
after chopping down a giant pine in an East Lansing backyard.
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Legends of Paul Bunyan, Lumberjack, mixed media installation, 100x222x6".
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The Mystic Knights of the Blue Ox associated themselves together to perpetuate for posterity the memory of Paul Bunyan, the legendary hero of the American Lumberjack; to erect a statue of the mighty Paul Bunyan and to establish a museum of the Paul Bunyan relics at Bayfield, Wisconsin; to promote sociability and friendship among its members; to hold and conduct entertainment, excursions and social meetings of its members; to make, contract, and purchase or lease and hold all real property necessary for the said purposes and to have an office to conduct its business and to promote its objects and purposes.
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The fabulous new Paul Bunyan Coffee Shop
Home of the Tremendous Bunyan Burger, a Meal on a Bun
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Legendary logger Paul Bunyan and the Timber Queen
appear together at the Lake States Logging Congress
at the Brown County Arena in Green Bay, Wisconsin.
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Presenting legends of Paul Bunyan
Eric Fogle, Michigan
Jeff Gerber, Washington
Matthew Hanna, Michigan
James Milostan, Wisconsin
Fumihiro Ohara, Kyoto, Japan
Donna Tauscher, California
Legends of Paul Bunyan, Lumberjack chronicled the life and work of Paul Bunyan with firsthand accounts and readymade myths. The Paul Bunyan theme and its futurity was the focus of the exhibition. This expedient hero of American artistic history has become an anti-hero in the new millennium. We also explored this abandonment and restored for posterity a truly American source of inspiration, Paul Bunyan.
Jeff Gerber and James Milostan
Jeff Gerber and Eric Fogle
Fumihiro Ohara
Donna Tauscher
Jeff Gerber, Matthew Hanna and Fumihiro Ohara
Jeff Gerber, Donna Tauscher and James Milostan
Legends of Paul Bunyan, Lumberjack
Installation photographs on Flickr
Installation slideshow on YouTube
Review from Real Detroit Weekly
Exhibition artwork on Rocky Ford Studio blog
All images remain copyright ©2011 the artists.
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Lumbercore came about to give Paul Bunyan a fresh mission for the new millennium. As the myth of Paul Bunyan came from the woods, the aim of Lumbercore is to give, in return, myth back to the forest. Paul Bunyan Fine Art took on the responsibility to represent Paul Bunyan in his new role as both guide and shaman for the Lumbercore performances.
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Lumberwoods Sightings of the Two Headed Buck (detail)
Lumberwoods Sightings of the Two Headed Buck, paint, map, map tack, ink, varnish and shellac on MDF, 28x20".
"Besides being the epic hero of the tall timber, Paul Bunyan's tracking abilities were legendary. No trail was too old or too dim for him to follow. He once came across the skeleton of a two headed buck that had died of old age and, just for curiosity, picked up the tracks of the animal and spent the whole afternoon following its trail back to the place where it was born."
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Francis E. Danovich mural fragment (detail)
Francis E. Danovich mural fragment (detail)
The Legend of Paul Bunyan painted by Francis E. Danovich starting in 1939 and completed in 1941.
The color ink on plaster mural was commissioned by the federal Works Progress Administration for
the W.K. Kellogg Foundation Institute in Ann Arbor, Michigan. Currently only three fragments of the
original mural are displayed at the University of Michigan.
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