Charming Set of Six c. 1930s Painted Wooden Folk Art Houses tiny animal which to my eye has

which to my eye has a wonderful sort of wildness and extra visceral feeling to it--like the salty sea itself

The silk is sewn onto linen

I'd guess it dates from the first half of the 20th century

I'm not entirely sure whether this oil on canvas painting was a fragment of a larger work or

largely in rhyme

Charming Set of Six c. 1930s Painted Wooden Folk Art Houses tiny animal which to my eye hasA few losses here and there but what a charmer of a bunch. One might guess each of these was modeled after a specific house in the neighborhood of the person who created them, c. 1930s I would guess, maybe just a little earlier each is very much its own particular house, and in each case careful attention is given to the windows, doors, porches, awnings, and chimneys on each side of it. Photos give a good sense and of course I took pleasure in trying