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Hoss Haley - that it!

Here is blurb off the 'net:

Despite Cram's proclamations of Haley's significance (and the artist's disconcerting resemblance to George Clooney), Hoss Haley comes across as Midwest modest. He grew up in Dodge City, Kan., roping cattle, racing motorcycles and raising wheat. "Living on a farm, I had access to basic welding equipment and got a lot of direct experience that way," he notes.

Haley was making sculpture – "cowboys, horses, that kind of thing" – by the time he was a teenager. He won his first commission right out of high school, "a 132-foot-tall wheat sculpture" that still graces the offices of the High Plains Journal.

"I probably haven't done that well – financially –since," confesses Haley. "But I realized then that I had to leave Kansas. Otherwise, I'd probably still be making wheat sculptures or cows."

Interior design / Mountain Xpress / Asheville, NC