Silver Painted, Pin Prick Decorated, Carved Folk Art Pin Cushion Shoe animal collection From a second batch of

From a second batch of drawings by the prolific and ever inventive Chicago artist James Frederic Bone (1929-2015)

with almost all of the white paint gone from one side

oil on canvas on old wood stretcher

and the remnants of old green paint (a bit hard to see in photos

British I believe

Silver Painted, Pin Prick Decorated, Carved Folk Art Pin Cushion Shoe animal collection From a second batch ofSo many shoe shaped things in the world to love, and I'm a sucker for pin prick type decoration circling a toe! It's a curious one, feeling to me one part Victorian and one part Texas, between the silver and those stars adhered to the wide pink ribbon on either side. (And really, it seems quite an apt companion to the Marie Antoinette watercolor I'm listing next!) 5" l x 1 5 8" w x 3 1 2" t. Good condition, with a nice patina of use and wear, ribbons