Saturday, January 19, 2013
341 OBJECT
HUGE antique FOLK ART oil painting OWLS on PIN BRANCH Chicago
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
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
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SATURDAY INQUISITION BLOGGING
the judas cradle
italian drawing. late 1600's.
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