SOLD Much Loved Sweetly Frowning Antique Jointed Man with Tenderly Added Legs alms box who made similarly unflinching paintings

who made similarly unflinching paintings and prints of boxers in the ring

so this was an early framing of what has since become an iconic feature of a building renowned as a architectural mastepiece

With a large ball on top echoing the one inside

1 1/4” at widest point

I love the very broad shoulders of the figure

SOLD Much Loved Sweetly Frowning Antique Jointed Man with Tenderly Added Legs alms box who made similarly unflinching paintingsThis frowning fellow is one of a number of wonderful old carved articulated figures today, him straight out of an amazing West Coast collection of folk self taught outsider art. For me carved figures like are as close to animate as a handmade thing can be, and I always love the process of photographing them a sort of "getting to know you" experience, through which their very individual personalities (and souls, I would say!) reveal themselves,