The Dr. Samuel R. Poliakoff Collection of Western Art

at the Abbeville County Library System, Abbeville, SC

Joe Beeler
Ernest Berke
Ernest Berke
Ernest Berke
Ernest Berke
Ernest Berke
Roger Cooke
Roger Cooke
Joe de Yong
Joe de Yong
Joe de Yong
Joe de Yong
Thomas A DeDecker
Frank DiVita
Nick Eggenhofer
Daro Flood
Ralph Lowe
Ben Matchers
Bill Nebeker
Jack Riley
David Salk
Wayne Wolfe
Medicine Ring (#124)
Jack Riley (1917–1989)— Western Artists

Following service in World War II, Riley spent 30 years as a watch repairman before turning full time to his true vocation and calling of being an artist. Inspired by the work of Charles Russell and Frederick Remington he began experimenting with making sculpture in 1966. Largely self-taught, he began sculpting in gypsum and other clays he found near his home.


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