 This is widely documented as Edmondson's "discovery" by Sidney Mttron Hirsch.Hirsch himself was a collector of African, Middle Eastern, and East Asian art and began to become one of Edmondson's greatest supporters .With this exposure, friends of Hirsch's and other fellow members of Nashville's elite bought Edmondson's sculptures for their homes, gardens, and offices, many of which were later displayed in exhibits at the Smithsonian American Art Museum and the Cheekwood Botanical Garden and Museum of Art.