Ernest Young Man Tenderly Holding Chicken, c. 1940s-50s Snapshot save the food advertisement The figure holds a long

The figure holds a long bowl

and the homely face on this one won me immediately

It was a week for blocks sets

and their linear arrangement

and thought the patterning on this antique silver gessoed wooden one suited it fairly well

Ernest Young Man Tenderly Holding Chicken, c. 1940s-50s Snapshot save the food advertisement The figure holds a longPortraits of very sincere looking boys holding farm chickens is one of my very favorite genres ever! And a very loving relationship captured here, I'd say. Looks like a view to the coop in the background, and a couple of nice diagonals framing him and the bird too. Sweet and tender. 5 1 8" x 3 1 16". Clipped corners as evident, and some toning as evident.