Yule Marble Sculpture

Approximately four feet tall five feet wide and six feet long tubing on the colorado was sculpted out of yule marble from colorado stone quarries.

Yule marble sculpture.

Updated june 23 2020 a brief history of colorado yule marble by martin cooney colorado yule marble may be found only in the yule creek valley three miles southeast of the secluded rocky mountain town of marble colorado 9 300 feet above sea level. Five days after we arrived our son arrived. The find is a rare 85 lb. The crystal river runs parallel to county road 3 as it flows past the town of marble.

The sculpture as its title suggests features a mother and her son tubing down the colorado river. Gossamer wind yellow marble 27x18x10. Colorado yule marble oddity. I am pleased to show my sculpture rock man to the world.

Colorado marble at heart of artists summer camp for 29 years expert and amateur carvers have gathered to conjure art from yule marble. High quality marble cast to create colossal size statues or small figurines of incredible details. The photos show the front top under chin and the natural fused breccia contact with the marble. We moved to hawaii in september 2002.

8 2002 the fruit trees vanilla vines cacao chocolate trees and figs that james has been busy planting and tending are begining to. The marble marble symposium has been sharing the art and joy of stone carving in a non competitive culturally diverse atmosphere for over 30 years. Just 25 miles separate the kmj from the yule marble quarry but the journey by road is twice that as it meanders down the roaring fork river valley then up the aptly named crystal river valley all the way to the rugged and remote mountain town of marble colorado. To the right are letters one from the miner who found the stone and one from a gem expert.

The pitkin county healthy rivers board has expressed interest in a water quality monitoring program to see if the diversion of yule creek a tributary of the crystal is having downstream impacts. It was discovered in the spring of 1873 by geologist sylvester. First discovered in 1873 it is quarried underground at an elevation of 9 300 feet 2 800 m above sea level in contrast to most marble which is quarried from an open pit and at much lower elevations. The largest selection of marble sculpture for sale.

Yule marble is a marble of metamorphosed limestone found only in the yule creek valley in the west elk mountains of colorado 2 8 miles 4 5 km southeast of the town of marble colorado. Looking to buy a marble sculpture online. Large yule marble sculptures.