United States, 39.76, -98.5United States, Florida, 28.75054, -82.5001Samuels, O.L., 1931-1998-2008Sculpture by O. L. Samuels.O. L. Samuels left home at eight years old, worked on Georgia farms, and later traveled to New York City where he became a professional prize fighter. He returned to the South in the early 1960s and found work as a tree surgeon. In 1982, an accident on the job left him severely injured. Discouraged by his slow recovery, he fell into a depression until he remembered that his grandmother, a former slave, once told him that a person could combat depression by carving on a spool of wood. Samuels picked up some wood and began to carve. Today, he continues to carve, allowing his sense of humor and vivid imagination to dictate the often mystical figures that emerge from the wood.Purchase of the Tubman African American Museum.image/jpeghttp://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/Folk art--United StatesAfrican American folk art--United StatesSculpture--United StatesAfrican American sculpture--United StatesFolk art--FloridaAfrican American folk art--FloridaSculpture--FloridaAfrican American sculpture--FloridaHuman figure in artFigure sculpture--United StatesFigure sculpture--20th centuryFigure sculpture--21st centuryGlitter artDianneStillImage