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My wife Frances commissioned Harold Enlow to carve me one of his caricature carvings as a birthday gift earlier this month.  I was very honored and appreciative to receive such a rare gift as an Enlow carving.  Harold has long been one of my carving mentors long before I ever met him, then  becoming his friend and now fellow Caricature Carvers of America member.  The cowboy is three and a half inches tall by two inches wide and painted with acrylic paints.

Harold Enlow is the one person who has done more for woodcarving than any other single carver and yet he would not admit that since he is a humble and unassuming gentle spirit.  So a Rare Gift of a carving that was carved by a Rare Gift to the carving world made my wife’s birthday gift even more rare.  Thank you.