Very Expressive Folk Art Polychromed Carved Wood Seagull Zanesville planter 1950s brass alphabet stencils

1950s brass alphabet stencils

Rosine stole these away

are 11 pig drawings signed by different people--surely the entries in the contest

perhaps in absence of real people around

this rower feels like something of an archetype

Very Expressive Folk Art Polychromed Carved Wood Seagull Zanesville planter 1950s brass alphabet stencilsThis wonderful seagull, carved of wood and polychromed, has a familiarity about it to me, as if done by an artist whose work I have seen somewhere but can't place. It's definitely not your average seagull, I really think done by someone known, and something tells me from Nova Scotia but that's just a hunch. The painterly white head with mossy green yellow tipped beak is just glorious, and I love the way it stands balanced on tail features with wire