Born in 1912, Minnesota artist John Adams Spelman III was known for linoleum-block prints. Spelman attended Black Mountain College in 1936, the Farm School at Swannanoa (Warren Wilson College) and Pine Mountain Settlement School in Kentucky. In 1939 Spelman published a collection of linoleum prints about rural Appalachia called “At Home in the Hills: A Cross Section of Harlan County, Kentucky.” Spelman also illustrated the book “The Kentucky” for Thomas D. Clark in 1942.