Dick Giehl
← People of the Society · on record 1965–1993
The Society’s records
Everything the Society’s own records say of Dick Giehl: the offices held, the standings conferred, and the awards won. Where the records are silent, so is this part of the page.
Also recorded as Mr. Dick Giehl
Demonstrated the brush and air brush technique at the 11th International Assembly of Leathercraftsmen, Flint, Michigan, 1965, alongside demonstrators from across the leathercraft world.
From Summer 1965.
Served the Society as
- 11th Assembly Demonstrator 1965
- Demonstrator (Brush and Air Brush) 1965
Honours
- Al Stohlman Award for Achievement in Leathercraft 1993
Presented by Al and Ann Stohlman at the International Federation of Leather Guilds (IFoLG) show in Indianapolis; reported by the Leather Crafters Journal, vol. 3 no. 6 (Nov/Dec 1993).
Where this comes from
Life and work
He was not a member of the Society: he demonstrated at the 11th International Assembly of Leathercraftsmen, Flint, Michigan, in 1965. These lines come from outside sources, named under each.
- Background
- An Ohio leather artist (1918 – 10 June 2002), known for realistic wildlife pictures painted on mission-grain leather. He took up leathercraft after watching a woman make moccasins on a river bank in Ontario, and after a 1950s visit to Tandy and Craftool, where he met Al Stohlman, taught large weekly classes at home.
From The Leather Crafters & Saddlers Journal, In Memoriam, vol. 12 no. 5 (Sep/Oct 2002), and the Stohlman Foundation's tribute, quoting Bill Reis, “Dick Giehl Remembered” (same issue, p. 24), https://stohlmanfoundation.com/recipients/1993-al-stohlman-award-winner-dick-giehl/.
- Work
- From 1967 to 1983 he toured art and craft shows in the southeast and Midwest of the United States. He spent 16 years as a visiting craftsman at Silver Dollar City, Branson, Missouri, which gave him its Craftsmen Hall of Fame Award in 1988, and he sold a 30 by 40 inch eagle picture to Busch Gardens, Florida.
From the Stohlman Foundation's tribute, https://stohlmanfoundation.com/recipients/1993-al-stohlman-award-winner-dick-giehl/.
- Publications
- He contributed wildlife picture patterns and projects to The Leather Crafters Journal from 1992 to 1995, among them “Merry Christmas”, “Wildlife Scene”, “Underwater Scene”, “Bear Scene”, “Coyote”, “Mourning Dove” and “Unlined Horseshoe Purse”, and a cardinals design on the cover of May/Jun 1993. “Covered Bridge and Model T”, first published in The Leather Craftsman, Sep/Oct 1961, was reprinted in The Leather Crafters & Saddlers Journal in 2009, as were “Wallet Design for Antique Car Buffs” in 2008 and a Doodle Page in 2017.
From the catalogue of The Leather Crafters & Saddlers Journal at SomethingUnderTheBed, https://somethingunderthebed.com/CURTAIN/REVIEWSmags/LeatherCraftersJournal.html.