Large, Brilliantly Painted 1940 Folk Art Tabletop Desk, with Roosters still life and 2 5/8"across at the

and 2 5/8"across at the base

is painted a dark gray

Three of the four I found with pretty sorry remnants of their former watercolor kits inside

who signed it

27 1/2" l x 11/16" wide and deep

Large, Brilliantly Painted 1940 Folk Art Tabletop Desk, with Roosters still life and 2 5/8"across at theThere are times when I am simply incapable of not buying something, and rationalize that even if no one else falls in love with it, I'll be happy just to keep it for myself. Like this gloriously hand painted desk, signed on the back "To my son, Da Mumma" and dated 1940. It's large to be a lap desk, but would be a handy thing to stash all of one's stuff inside in order to move from table to table, wherever one want might to work, or draw, or paint, and