User:Ryukin/Tom Vail
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Tom Vail | |
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Born | Thomas Edward Vail Jr. 1946 Hollywood, California, U.S. |
Nationality | American |
Education | University of Colorado, Art Center College of Design |
Known for | Printmaking, photography, collage, sculpture, architecture |
Spouse | Jann Vail |
Tom Vail is an American artist, builder, and musician who specializes in photography and collage, hexagonal buildings, and American old-time or Appalachian folk music on the concertina.
Early life
Vail was born in Hollywood, CA in 1946 to a wealthy landowning family. He graduated from high school in Pasadena, CA in 1964 and went on to attend the University of Colorado at Boulder for fine art and commercial photography. He later studied at the Art Center College of Design.
Career
Vail’s initial artistic interest was in printmaking and he exhibited his prints at the
Aside from fine art, Vail became a licensed carpenter and contractor[6]and built custom homes in Colorado and New Mexico through the 1980s, 1990s, and early 2000s. He is known to have built conventional homes, log homes, earth ships, high efficiency eco-homes, and his signature hexagonal modern hogans or permanent yurts. He designed built at least 3 hexagonal homes in Huerfano County, CO for his own residence and for others.
Vail holds a patent from 1997, jointly with William Banning Vail, for a biodegradable burial urn.[7]
In the 1990s, Vail was a member of the school board in Walsenburg, CO.[8]
Family
Vail is part of an old American family with several notable members. His maternal grandfather was Howard Hughes’s personal physician
References
- ^ https://www.amazon.com/Western-Icons-Tom-Vail-ebook/dp/B008TS40E2
- ^ Vail, Thomas. Western Icons. 2012.
- ^ http://themodbo.com/novembers-first-friday-art-openings-at-the-modbo-and-spqr-tom-vail-and-matt-chmielarczyk/
- ^ https://www.sdc-arts.org/exhibitions/going-out-business-sale-retrospective-tom-vail-0
- ^ https://www.coloradosprings.com/events/?forcePlatform=desktop#!/details/-Going-Out-of-Business-Sale-A-Retrospective-Tom-Vail/5156081/2018-10-03T11
- ^ "Chamber of commerce".
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: CS1 maint: url-status (link) - ^ Patent: Vail III, William B. (Bothell, WA), Vail Jr., Thomas E. (Walsenburg, CO) 1997, Environmentally degradable urns for burial of human cremation ashes in terrestrial cemeteries. United States, 5636418.
- ^ Ree, Dorothy. Walsenburg - Crossroads Town. 2012.
External links
- TomVail.net