Agapit Thibodeau Folk Art Dog Painting (on Cat Box Cardboard) in Handmade Frame carved wooden whimsy to which shading and additional

to which shading and additional detail was then added—here right down to patterning on the veins of the leaves and very tiny lower wings of the smaller butterfly here

taller at one end that the other

One sees doll chairs and benches in this manner around these parts from time to time--usually referred to as Adirondack- but I don't think I've ever seen one as lovely as perfectly aged as this one

so I don't think it has anything to do with that

inserted into the driftwood

Agapit Thibodeau Folk Art Dog Painting (on Cat Box Cardboard) in Handmade Frame carved wooden whimsy to which shading and additionalI have turned up very little about the Agapit Thibodeau (b. 1896, Brantville New Brunswick, Canada) who made this piece I believe in the early 1980s, shortly before his death but I think I am pretty certain I would have really liked him! What a wonderful dog, which I take for a huge snuggly St. Bernard, and which seems perhaps to be emerging from a dog house, though it could be an underpass, and maybe these are train tracks in front of him, or it