George and Abe, Transcendent Pair of 1930s Carved Silhouettes vintage hand-painted box and hands coming up from

and hands coming up from below to grab them

with two carved rings at center

I love that it feels super mid-century but also very much product of singular sensibility

A modernist landscape with a sophisticated sense to how the water cuts through the forest

as ethereal and radiant as they come

George and Abe, Transcendent Pair of 1930s Carved Silhouettes vintage hand-painted box and hands coming up fromFor me, these two quite transcend their origins as carvings made "by pupils" 1937 38, which is what is noted in graphite on their reverse sides, along with the name of the teacher, which is a bit hard to read. I'll give that teacher great credit for leading their students in the exercise of relief carving silhouettes and painting staining them black and white in direct conversation with the hollow cut silhouette of a hundred years prior, and of course