Emile Bluteau Canadian Folk Art Wedding Couple feb 14 ) With an American flag

) With an American flag waving proudly from the stern and sea below

Which guard its body like a fence / of moving darts in ev'ry sense

returning to New York by way of the Cape of Good Hope

like a fourth leg

Emile Bluteau Canadian Folk Art Wedding Couple feb 14 ) With an American flagI've had a few pieces by Canadian folk artist Emile Bluteau (of Eastern Townships, Quebec) over the years, and find a great deal of humanity and charm in his work. Bluteau, also a collector, began carving and making assemblages from scavenged and salvaged materials in the late 70s, first portraying birds and then "the human condition in all its moods and shapes" as described by Lyle Elder, a documenter of Canadian folk and outsider art. More about