Colorful Carved and Painted Birds by Canadian Folk Artist Yves Robitaille keys and various leaf and flower

and various leaf and flower forms

exquisitely crafted brown and white vase by renowned California ceramist Leslie Thompson

75ʺd × 4

3 7/8" d at base

Colorful Carved and Painted Birds by Canadian Folk Artist Yves Robitaille keys and various leaf and flowerWithout consciously realizing it, I have been gravitating to the work of lots of Canadians of late, and especially folk artists in and and around Quebec. These very charming birds are the work of Yves Robitaille (b. 1939), a widely collected sculptor and woodcarver from Saint Francois de lIle dOrleans. Though he has occasionally carved other small animals, Robitaille is first and foremost a bird carver shorebirds, song birds, hummingbirds, and most