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

Review from the Oakland Press

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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The mythical woodsman, Paul Bunyan, towers over the Snow Queen
of Aberdeen, South Dakota during their appearance at the annual
Winter Carnival at St. Paul, Minnesota.

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Paul Bunyan and Blue Ox, carved by Oliver Laurence Barrett from Oregon
sandstone as part of the Public Works of Art Project. In 1934, this sculpture
was proposed for the design of the Bonneville Dam powerhouses.

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Round River Pennant, paint, map and shellac on MDF, each 8 x 22".

"What! You never heard of the Round River drive? Don't suppose you ever read about Paul Bunyan
neither? And you call yourselves lumberjacks?"

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