Red Spotted Old Carved Folk Art Monkey with Moving Arms old whimsy I'd guess this unsigned painting

I'd guess this unsigned painting on a heavyweight paper/light cardstock dates to the 1970s or so

or just hang via pinning by the top corners

and the pitcher filled with fresh cream

with stairs marching down---I also love its internal tensions and contradictions

just a few light scratches to the surface that I don't think detract at all

Red Spotted Old Carved Folk Art Monkey with Moving Arms old whimsy I'd guess this unsigned paintingThis wonderful monkey came from the estate of the late Chicago based collector and arts patron Ruth Horwich, who was among the founders of the Chicago's Museum of Contemporary Art in 1967, and later a Trustee. She and her husband Leonard collected for more than half a century an eclectic mix of folk, nave, and outsider art as well as many works by Chicago Imagists, and and a large collection of work by Alexander Calder. Clearly her great eye ran to