Papillon in Dog House, Oil on Panel Folk Art Painting by Angie Montgomery, 1918, Age 84 carved quail bound by strings which came

bound by strings which came apart in my hands as I began to handle it

very late 19th/very early 20th c

and here in a velvet covered book shaped little box with perfectly aged interior mirror framed in gold paper

establishing a protectorate over Cuba

Papillon in Dog House, Oil on Panel Folk Art Painting by Angie Montgomery, 1918, Age 84 carved quail bound by strings which cameThis is one of two artworks found in Nashville that were done by 80+ year old women, both in the late 1910s, which in and of itself makes me happy, and even more happily they are both great things. The age of the makers also reminds one of the fact that things made by a person at one point in time carry that maker's whole history of reference points, and indeed, I think the manner of painting on dog, painted in 1918, oil on wood, has a strong mid 19th