Brilliantly Colored Bird and Berries, Unusual Early Tinsel Painting in Original Frame boxes inside box 5 7/8" tall and wide

5 7/8" tall and wide and in excellent condition

a minor dark smudge to the paper to the right of that

and really a bit wild

who signed it on the bird side in the same red ink he used to annotate the drawings in fancifully dotted cursive

and the reverse side is finished with fabric-- but I'm not completely sure

Brilliantly Colored Bird and Berries, Unusual Early Tinsel Painting in Original Frame boxes inside box 5 7/8" tall and wideFinding this one made me realize how rare it is to come across an early folk art tinsel painting of a bird I've since found a few examples out there, notably in the collection of the American Folk Art Museum, but certainly there are hundreds of urns of flowers and fruit for every bird on branch! And what a bird, neck and breast and tail feathers a colorful, scalloped patchwork of shimmery foils showing through the reverse painted glass. And those red