Sublime Spaces Visionary Worlds: Built Environments of Vernacular Artists, by Leslie Umberger, Erika

John Ehn opened a motel in California in 1941, moving there from Michigan, where he had worked as a trapper. He hired a sculptor to make a huge statue of a trapper to publicize the Old Trapper cheap international airline travel s Lodge, and seeing the sculptor at work proved training enough.
From the mid-Fifties, Ehn transformed his front yard into a history cheap international airline travel of the old West, with sculpted cowboys, cowgirls, gunslingers and Indians, and a Boot Hill graveyard. The motel office was filled with western memorabilia, weaponry and pelts. The face of the building was covered with tools, and a low wall was decorated with rocks and cement faces.
After John Ehn s death, the family was forced to sell the property to make way for airport expansion. However, the main sculptures, along with Ehn s many signs and painted tombstones were rescued by the SPACES organization and relocated to the grounds of the Los Angeles cheap international airline travel Pierce college.
Sublime Spaces Visionary Worlds: Built Environments of Vernacular Artists, by Leslie Umberger, Erika Doss, Ruth DeYoung Kohler, Lisa Stone, and Jane Bianco, published by John Michael cheap international airline travel Kohler Arts Center and Princeton Architectural Press, 2007.