Not until he retired from decades of farming and work in tobacco warehouses did North Carolinian Raymond Coins discover his love of folk carving. His baby dolls and angels carved out of river stone are among his most heralded works, but he also executed large bas-reliefs with religious themes and full-sized figures out of cedar, some weighing more than 700 pounds. He was a spiritual person, and his dreams shaped many of his works. Coins received a North Carolina Folk Heritage Lifetime Achievement Award in 1995. He died in 1998 at the age of 94.This page was last updated with new works on March 10, 2010.
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