Super Folky 1936 Folk Art Retablo on Tin with Figures, Candle, Deep Blue Ground antique sioux native american quirt a barn with silo

a barn with silo

for example to light a candle or pipe from a lit fire--though it could certainly be used as a vase now

handmade pine mold made to produce lead shot (musket balls

but it would be great either way

Super Folky 1936 Folk Art Retablo on Tin with Figures, Candle, Deep Blue Ground antique sioux native american quirt a barn with siloNear impossible to read the hand painted cursive text along the bottom of this one, though I did manage for decipher the year, 1936. But what a marvelously expressive painting, much better in person hard to capture the deep lapis colored ground and the creams and blacks of the figures simultaneously, but they're rich and bold and glow y all at once. For me, about as earnestly holy feeling as could be, centered around the single flaming candle held