Allegorical Rooster Drama with Statue, Strange Antique Oil on Canvas, Framed blue bird in which different media and

in which different media and modes of representation converge

and David Simpson

Finland and the Kola Peninsula

I'd guess the deck dates to the 1940s or so

Allegorical Rooster Drama with Statue, Strange Antique Oil on Canvas, Framed blue bird in which different media andA strange one! There seems to be a long history of rooster paintings, cock fight paintings included, though I have not been able to put a finger on the precise origins of the genre. This one oil on unstretched canvas, framed under glass I found in Maine, and believe dates to the late 19th early 20th c., with the frame perhaps original to it. And it certainly seems allegorical to me, though I'm not sure I understand all of its implications! The pair of