Dog After Pheasant, Old Folk Art Painting on Wood Panel antique whimsie are the best of the

are the best of the best

and I’d guess it was delivered as an Easter gift with some added treat inside

19th century I am pretty sure

I love blocks of all sorts

The neck is not quite long to be a giraffe (though he did some terrific giraffes

Dog After Pheasant, Old Folk Art Painting on Wood Panel antique whimsie are the best of theThis is one of a pair of paintings I found together yesterday in Maine, clearly done by the same person and I think equally terrific. (The other is a little smaller.) As opposed to the wolf aggressively chasing a pair of deer in the other painting, here this shaggy dog with what I assume is a pheasant in its sights seems more a lot more friendly than ferocious! The bright sky opening behind him gives this one the feel, to me, of a brisk, invigorating