James Tellen Woodland Sculpture Garden

Starting in 1942 and proceeding until his passing in 1957, James A. Tellen made more than 30 memorable, religious and mythic figures inside the forested areas encompassing his family's mid year house operating at a profit River region of Sheboygan, Wisconsin. A get together of both life-size and smaller than usual characters, the figures are organized in similar tableaux, utilizing the common habitat as a sort of instant stage set, with the performing artists swung to stone. All things considered, they go up against a mysterious, relatively surrealistic association with their regular surroundings - and give a window to the craftsman's spirit. It is trusted that Tellen was conceived in 1880 in the town of Houghton in Michigan's Upper Peninsula. Received at an opportune time, Tellen moved to the little city of Sheboygan, Wisconsin, with his new family. He went to parochial school in Sheboygan until the eighth grade and later credited his solid religious convictions to his Catholic childhood. For the majority of his life, Tellen worked in a furniture industrial facility where he painted stripes, curlicues and other fine improving itemizing. In his extra time, he tried different things with oil painting, at that point swung to different mediums. At the point when log jams at the manufacturing plant amid and following the Depression lessened Tellen's work routine, it enabled him to seek after his woodcarving side interest and go to six years of mechanical craftsmanship classes at a nearby night school. Tellen's family summer house filled in as a grandstand for his wood and metal pieces.