Joel T. Hart Letters, . 1829-1864

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Joel T. Hart Letters, . 1829-1864

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Three letters from Joel T. Hart, a Kentucky sculptor, to his brother, John Hart of Clark County, Ky., and an 1843 slave bill of sale. One letter, 1829 (as published in a newspaper in 1881), from Nicholas County, Kan., describes Hart's studies; one, 1884, from Florence, Italy, recounts his travels and inquires about exhibiting his statues; and an undated fragment discusses a niece-in-law who is trading on Joel Hart's reputation by using his surname.

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University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Library. Southern Historical Collection

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University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Library. Southern Historical Collection

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Hart, Joel T. (Joel Tanner), 1810-1877

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Joel Tanner Hart was born in Clark County, Kentucky, February 10, 1810 to Josiah and Judith Tanner Hart. As a young man, he built stone walls and chimneys for a living and by the age of twenty-one was working in Pruden's marble yard in Lexington, Kentucky carving headstones and monuments. Hart began his career in sculpture when Shobal Vail Clevenger, a young sculptor from Cincinnati, encouraged him to sculpt a marble bust of Cassius Marcellus Clay. From then on, Hart received commissions to make...