Charming Carved and Painted Folk Art Lumberjack painted blocks he looks like a bit

he looks like a bit of a goofball too

with a little paint loss and some surface cracking to the wood

The blue beads for the eyes give this carved Madonna a pretty intense presence-she feels both very holy and rather otherworldly

the palette mixes deep red

The history and rituals of the Freemasons seem incredibly complex

Charming Carved and Painted Folk Art Lumberjack painted blocks he looks like a bitI really love this guy, right down to the fact that he probably lost a pipe along the way, leaving him with a wide open mouth that looks as if it might be shouting "timberrrrr!" The rather expressionistic black checkerboard pattern painted on top of the red of his shirt I think is really excellent too. Wonderfully crude, perfectly aged, and feels to me most likely done by a Canadian folk artist in the 1970s or 80s or so. 6 3 8" t x 2" w x 1 5 8", in