Wonderful Antique Folk Art Carved and Painted Figure with Fishing Pole hineysuckle In great structural shape and

In great structural shape and good for a spin

dramatic piece

with the orange paint perfectly aged and weathered to give it almost a marbleized look set off by the rich black

I think whoever made this one had a pretty terrific design sensibility

commenting on the sort of performativity required of the artist himself--and perhaps any human attempting to assert any sort of "talent" in the world

Wonderful Antique Folk Art Carved and Painted Figure with Fishing Pole hineysuckle In great structural shape andI find this very old, small carved figure extraordinarily beautiful, equally in terms of form and fantastically aged surface, with pale yellow paint on the face and gorgeous blue green for the shirt, which still pops. I believe it was probably once part of a whirlygig, with a screw still in the base, which is nailed to the inside bottom of the legs, and via which it would have attached it to a larger structure. The upper body of the figure is attached