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Vollis Simpson

Vollis Simpson (1919 - 2013) was active/lived in North Carolina.  Vollis Simpson is known for Whirligigs, found object kinetic metal sculpture.

Following is The New York Times obituary of the artist.

By WILLIAM YARDLEY
Published: June 5, 2013
   
Vollis Simpson, who made metal scraps into magnificent things that twirled and jangled and clattered when he set them out on his land, and who did so long before anyone started calling them whirligigs or him an artist, died on Friday at his home in Lucama, N.C. He was 94.

His death was confirmed by his wife, Jean.

Asked how her husband could visit a junkyard, gather odd objects and eventually produce a rocket ship or a guitar player or a team of horses pulling a carriage across the sky of eastern North Carolina and make it all look as natural as the breeze that animated it, Ms. Simpson explained, "It was just in his mind and in his brain and it just came out."

By the end of his life Mr. Simpson had become an art star. His 55-foot-tall, 45-foot-wide Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness is on permanent display at t   ...  [Displaying 1000 of 4158 characters.]  Artist bio

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