Nashville artist Phil Ponder has been commissioned to create a limited-edition portray of the Wilson County Courthouse.
Former Wilson County Commissioner, Sue Vanatta, a longtime pal of Ponder’s, introduced the undertaking at Monday evening’s Wilson County Fee assembly.
100 lithographs might be produced. Fifty of these might be signed and numbered; 25 extra might be signed however unnumbered. These might be obtainable on the market to the general public. The remaining 25 might be obtainable for the 25 county commissioners to buy, Vanatta mentioned.
The associated fee for every print is $100.
Ponder, 91, lately painted an image of the Wilson County Veterans Museum and the 100 signed and numbered copies of that bought out inside three weeks, Vanatta mentioned.
The courthouse prints are being made as part of the 225th anniversary celebration of the founding of Wilson County. A commemorative occasion is scheduled at Fiddlers Grove in Lebanon on Oct. 26, in accordance with County Commissioner Jerry McFarland.
The county has put aside $30,000 for the celebration and County Commissioner Diane Weathers mentioned the county has agreed to pay Ponder $3,950 for his work. The proceeds from the lithographs will return into the county’s normal fund.
“It is a nice alternative for residents and commissioners to get the print, which represents a part of the historical past of Wilson County,” McFarland mentioned. “This print might be a pleasant historic merchandise that folks can go all the way down to their youngsters to get pleasure from.”
Since 1970, Ponder has painted the skylines of Nashville over time, the Customs Home in Nashville, Ryman Auditorium, the Tennessee State Capitol Constructing, Nissan Stadium and Nashville’s Second Avenue.
He additionally created the masthead brand for Essential Road Nashville, one among many media retailers owned by Essential Road Media, which can be the mother or father firm for The Wilson Publish and the Chronicle of Mt. Juliet. In a March 2021 Essential Road Nashville article in regards to the brand, he spoke on how element was essential in his work.
“Realism and element,” Ponder mentioned. “If I’m doing anyone’s home as a fee they usually need authenticity, the way in which the construction appeared on a sure day, I’ll say, ‘You need me to do each brick?’ That’s what I like to recommend, that I rely the bricks. I’ve been recognized to return to a construction and stand in entrance of it after I’ve gotten the preliminary and rely the quantity. Simply to verify I used to be proper on.”
