Born in 1933 in South St. Louis, Missouri, Thomas Grant Lloyd was a trained architect, tourism consultant, world traveler, and self-taught outsider artist who later developed a distinctive craft career from his Washington, DC workshop. After years creating birdhouses, dollhouses, hand-painted cigar boxes, and furniture, a visit to a Paul Spooner automata exhibition in London inspired him to create hand-carved kinetic sculptures. Working primarily in wood, Lloyd combined architectural...