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WHYTSELL REMEMBERED FOR PRIMITIVE PAINTINGS PART ONE

(02/10/2026)

Photos of paintings courtesy of Roy Edman
Connolly, Jr. and Harold Ray Dean Whytsell

By Bob Weaver

Edwin Lowell Whytsell was a rig builder, carpenter, farmer, blacksmith, musician and artist, a man of place on the lower West Fork near the long-gone Village of Richardson.

He wiled his spare hours away painting with materials he had available, mostly from 1930 through 1958.

See Whytsell Paintings Part II


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