Eugene Jackson

1887- death date unknown, some time after 1972

American (United States)

Born 1887; date of death unknown. 
 
At the age of 85, Eugene's Jackson's wife persuaded him to carve in wood the fanciful animals he had sketched all his life. A distinguished linguist, scholar and author, Jackson began his new career as artist in 1972. He first exhibited his wood block prints at the Angus Whyte Gallery in Provincetown and later at the gallery at Tree's Place in Orleans.  
 
Jackson's prints reflect the wit and scholarship of the man who made them. The work is myth-laden, filled with strange and whimsical anthropomorphic beasts acting out human roles. He is represented in the collection of the Cape Cod Museum of Art and many private collections.
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