SOLD Much Loved Sweetly Frowning Antique Jointed Man with Tenderly Added Legs alms box 1 1/4” at widest point

1 1/4” at widest point

the romanticism of the social order

with a red painted steel gnomon (the part that casts a shadow)

light as a feather

SOLD Much Loved Sweetly Frowning Antique Jointed Man with Tenderly Added Legs alms box 1 1/4” at widest pointThis 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,