Agapit Thibodeau Folk Art Dog Painting (on Cat Box Cardboard) in Handmade Frame carved wooden whimsy If this had been done

If this had been done in porcelain or carved in a more refined way I think it might be too cute for me

it would be a fine one to let the kids play with

inserted into the driftwood

so I don't think it has anything to do with that

Agapit Thibodeau Folk Art Dog Painting (on Cat Box Cardboard) in Handmade Frame carved wooden whimsy If this had been doneI have turned up very little about the Agapit Thibodeau (b. 1896, Brantville New Brunswick, Canada) who made this piece I believe in the early 1980s, shortly before his death but I think I am pretty certain I would have really liked him! What a wonderful dog, which I take for a huge snuggly St. Bernard, and which seems perhaps to be emerging from a dog house, though it could be an underpass, and maybe these are train tracks in front of him, or it