SOLD Much Loved Sweetly Frowning Antique Jointed Man with Tenderly Added Legs forest green Someone long ago

Someone long ago

perhaps including smoked mackerel

with a little minor staining/browning here and there

15 5/8" x 11 3/4"

SOLD Much Loved Sweetly Frowning Antique Jointed Man with Tenderly Added Legs forest green Someone long agoThis frowning fellow is one of a number of wonderful old carved articulated figures today, him straight out of an amazing West Coast collection of folk self taught outsider art. For me carved figures like are as close to animate as a handmade thing can be, and I always love the process of photographing them a sort of "getting to know you" experience, through which their very individual personalities (and souls, I would say!) reveal themselves,