Vintage Carving of Intense Girl with Braids, Presumed Hispaniolan vintage lacquer box with the cumulative marks and

with the cumulative marks and notes and drawings of many different students spread across its surface on both sides

Surface is weathered as evident

cane in hand

according to its author James Monteith

Vintage Carving of Intense Girl with Braids, Presumed Hispaniolan vintage lacquer box with the cumulative marks andAnother from the estate of an artist, activist, world traveller, collector, dealer and dear friend in Rockport, MA, which I would guess is Cuban, as she travelled there many times, or perhaps Haitian. I love the intensity and focus expressed in that face, and of course her wonderfully carved braids, pulled forward from behind her ears to frame her face. A great one in the company of other carved heads and figures, but with a very strong presence all