Old Folk Art Black Scare Cat with Double Eyes joseph albers There was a second edition

There was a second edition published in 1862

and here I think the wintery trees and traces of her skates on the ice are all the better felt in the negative

and all of the limbs move with ease

took over his father's pottery

with a terrific surface and the aging to the white painted face just exactly right

Old Folk Art Black Scare Cat with Double Eyes joseph albers There was a second editionA great scare cat to begin with, but it's extra set of eyes on both sides definitely put it over the top! It seems quite possible that this one actually lived in the garden, made to scare off varmints, and the first pair of eyes wasn't quite doing it, so the second set with red eye balls was painted to do the trick! Whatever the case, a pretty special one I think, wonderfully strange, and the whiskers are pretty excellent too. 13 7 8 t x 9 l x 11 16