More Photographs of Tanner Wickham's Statues

Many of Tanner Wickham's first works were of religious figures.  He was inspired by the religious sculptures he saw at a convent in Cullman, Alabama, where my aunt was a nun. The figure here represented Our Lady of Fatima; it was the centerpiece of what was the largest sundial in the world. Tanner was holding one of his many great grandchildren.  Photo made in the mid 1960s.

This statue of Andrew Jackson atop a rearing horse was constructed in the early 1960s. My grandfather greatly admired Andrew Jackson as evidenced by the fact that this was one of his earliest works not depicting a family or religious figure.

Picture on the left shows Tanner Wickham taking a break from his 1964 work;  Photo (1968) to the right is of  the completed statues of John F. Kennedy, Estes Kefaufer, and Patrick Henry.  A statue of Robert Kennedy was later added to the right of John F. Kennedy (Photo on the right was provided by Mary Evans)

My mother, Iris, E. T., and my brother, Arlen, standing in front of  the statues of Sam Davis (a Confederate hero) and Bill Marsh (E. T.'s maternal grandfather who was a spy for the Union Army during the Civil War).  The dedication ceremony for this pair of statues was in 1965. (Photo taken in 1965)

E. T and a statue of one of his hunting dogs; one of his earlier works (photo taken in late 1950s by Nancy Ledbetter)

E. T. and an early work of an Indian.  This statue, built in the late 1950s, was placed close to his cabin.  The head of the Indian was saved and was on display along with a few other of E. T.'s statues at the Customs House Museum's exposition of the works of E. T. Wickham  during the fall of 2001. (Photo taken in the late 1950s by Nancy Ledbetter)

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