African Folk Art Painting with Handwritten Story on Reverse Walker Art Center I found the pin at

I found the pin at the estate sale of an African American family in Kansas City

There is wear to this box consistent with its age

the vase is animated with expressionistically applied glazes of inky black and dark green

satin-finish glazes -- deep celadon green

The seasonal materials with which this basket was made are indigenous to the Olympic Peninsula in Washington

African Folk Art Painting with Handwritten Story on Reverse Walker Art Center I found the pin atThis African folk art painting poses a bit of a mystery. It is emblematic of paintings from Zimbabwe and Cameroon, which similarly feature numerous figures and animals, engaged in various activities, rendered in wonderfully bright colors and patterns and, like this one, painted on panel as well as its surrounding frame. But what makes this one particularly intriguing is that pasted to the back of the painting and written in pencil in a childlike hand,