SOLD Very Wonderful Old Carved Folk Art Jointed Figure in Hand-dyed, Hand-sewn Dress waddell co The slide top is a

The slide top is a bit clunky but works fine and holds snugly closed

a missing button on his coat

I've become really enamored of the way the gold paint on old tramp art pieces like this softens and mellows with age--in this case I think at least a hundred years time has resulted in mellow gold perfection

Running in the opposite direction are a variety of partial page weavings with vertical orientations woven in browns and yellows and creams

exactly centered between the two as if marking the center of the "ring

SOLD Very Wonderful Old Carved Folk Art Jointed Figure in Hand-dyed, Hand-sewn Dress waddell co The slide top is aThis beauty is one of a number of wonderful old carved articulated figures today, this one straight out of an amazing West Coast collection of folk self taught outsider art, and my favorite of all. 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