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…while, just a few feet away, Lynda Dunham Watkins’ delicately detailed “art dolls” and casts capture the strength of Native American tribesmen, the determination of a family taking home an evergreen to become their holiday tree or the founders of Texas – Sam Houston and Stephen F. Austin – down to period dress, the movable stirrups of a horse and rider or the hairstyles of a long-ago era..

...Art Critic, Alice Adams, on the grand opening of the Jordan Art Gallery in Corsicana, Texas, 10-17-2008

Powderly artist repeats as sculpture award winner

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North Texas E-news

Feb 25, 2009

Lynda Dunham-Watkins has received notification that she has again won an international Industry's Choice Doll of the Year (DOTY) award, presented each year by the Doll Reader Magazine at the International Doll Exposition in Florida, for William F. Cody (Buffalo Bill), a polymer clay figure hand sculpted by Lynda. This is Lynda's second DOTY Award, the first was for 'Summer' in 2007.

Cody will now be in competition for an even higher award, a People's Choice DOTY to be voted on by the public in the May issue of the Doll Reader magazine to be awarded in Las Vegas in late June.  This competition draw entries from around the world, and to win a DOTY is to win one of the highest awards in the industry.  Images of the winners can soon be seen online at www.dollreader.com as well as more information about the awards, etc.

North Texas E-news

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Feb 25, 2009