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Saturday, January 19, 2013

 

AMPHIBIAN ANIMAL

 

MAY TRIP W/ THE DANES

 

MARQUETTE DRIVE


 
OLD LURE



 

LANDS & PEOPLES

 
341 OBJECT

HUGE antique FOLK ART oil painting OWLS on PIN BRANCH Chicago

No one is more surprised I am selling this compelling painting than I. Stylistically, it's folk art with a dab of itinerant naiveté, and its subtle wittiness fulfills my primary requirement when it comes to works in that realm: A painting absolutely must make me smile, or at least cheer me up. 

 

Unlike the expressionless owls most often seen in paintings, each of the seven depicted here has a unique demeanor, expressing not wisdom, but surprise, annoyance, bewilderment, skepticism and more. One seems totally shocked at his situation.


 

Just after I bought the painting, a friend came up to me and said, “I thought you told me you were looking for things for people who love modernism and Mid-Century and big clean spaces such as lofts in New York. Those owls won't work.”
A couple weeks later, I showed him the following image, and said

 
 “I beg to differ. This terrific old painting will feel at home almost anywhere.”
Seriously – It would is a great painting for a lodge in Maine or Montana. In a different frame, anyone interested in the Arts & Crafts Movement would fall in love with it. Country, traditional, Mid-Century: It’ll work.
I’ve even been tempted to put it in the old truck and spend a week or so visiting every “Hooters” in the tri-state area. I may not have sold it, but it would have been an interesting trip, and after all, they DO bill themselves as “"delightfully tacky yet unrefined."
I don’t know about you, but I need a break.  I’ll be right back with a lot more pictures, but while I’m gone, here is the “us,” from whom you’re buying.

Sammy the Cat, Huckleberry the Wonder Pup, and me




 

ARNE IN GREEN BAY

 

ARNE PIC

puppy pron

 
SATURDAY INQUISITION BLOGGING

the judas cradle


italian drawing. late 1600's.

 

ARNE PIC

puppy pron

 

ARNE IN GREEN BAY

 

MARCO PIC


 
VOLCANO CAMS


augustine










BIRD!



















 

PIMPED CAR

1932 lancia dilambda

 
EBAY OBJECT


 

KITTY PRON

 

LANDS & PEOPLES

 

MARQUETTE DRIVE

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