LEE NEARY

Lee began carving when he was a supervisor of construction projects. He traveled around the country building hospitals, hotels, etc. and on weekends would carve. He carved the different trades; iron workers on red iron, concrete finishers on the base of a piece. He carved a saying usually profane, that a trade said. On a project in Manhattan he took some pieces to the Museum of American Folk Art and it was well received. When a recession hit the construction industry he began carving full time. He has never looked back. Lee carves what he calls "wise old sayings" and at last count had 185 sayings that he carves. During the summer he does art shows in beach towns and carves "shore stuff" ... oars with bathing beauties atop them; a bar stool becomes a wine bar. Sports have been good to Lee so he carves teams and puts them on bats, hockey sticks, banners, etc. His carved pet bowls are really great! People have told him they use them for dips and such at parties too.

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After 3 Days Fish And Guests Stink

carved wood construction

13 x 16

$65

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Age Is Not Important

carved wood construction

20 x14

$65

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One Lawyer in Town Will Starve

carved wood construction

20 x 14

$65

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Cats Teach Us That Not Everything in Life Has a Purpose

21 x 12

carved wood construction

$65

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Martha Stewart Did Live Here #1

18 x 14

carved wood construction

$65

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St. Andrew Patron Saint of Golf

carved wood construction

15 x 15

wording reads: Oh Saint Andrew listen to my favor, please let my golf score be a little lower than my neighbors.

$125

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Martha Stewart Does Not Live Here #1

16 x 13

carved wood construction

$65

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Martha Stewart Does Not Live Here #2

16 x 14

carved wood construction

$65

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Golf Is the Most Fun You Can Have with Your Clothes On

16 x 15

carved wood construction

$65

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Eat Drink and Remarry

9 x 5

carved wood construction

$35

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Expect Miracles

carved wood, mirror

20 x 14

$100

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The Sex is So Good

17 x 14

carved wood construction

$65

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American Success ladder

17 x 55

carved wood construction

wording on each rung from top to bottom reads: Good Breeding, proper School, Profession, Proper Family, Proper Stuff, Proper Death

$400

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A Button Hook Rescue on the Brielle Road Jetty

paint on wood

13 x 30 framed

$400

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Buns of Steel Ain't the Same as a Tight Ass

carved wood construction

$35

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Door to Innocence

40 x 12

carved wood construction

wording below each carving reads: Diggin for clams, Diving off the Main St. Bridge, Riding waves, Girls

$300

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I'd Rather Do Nothing Than Work for Nothing

carved wood construction

$35

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Expect Miracles (Male

carved wood construction with mirror

$100

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Wink I'll Do the Rest

carved wood construction

$35

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The Only Difference Between This Place and the titanic is the Titanic Had a Band

21 x 8 carved wood construction

$65

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When God Created Angels

9 x 40

wording reads: When God created angels, he ordered them to worship him. Creating man, he ordered the angels to bow to his most noble work. Lucifer refused because he loved God so much he could not bow to anyone else

$300

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Martha Stewart Did Live Here #2

16 x 14

carved wood construction

$65

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