Papillon in Dog House, Oil on Panel Folk Art Painting by Angie Montgomery, 1918, Age 84 tableotp to see the carefully pegged

to see the carefully pegged joints and sinew tied shoulders

These are well worn

Perhaps this was a railroad dining car plate for the Northern Pacific

and I think quite an elegant one with those tall

Papillon in Dog House, Oil on Panel Folk Art Painting by Angie Montgomery, 1918, Age 84 tableotp to see the carefully peggedThis is one of two artworks found in Nashville that were done by 80+ year old women, both in the late 1910s, which in and of itself makes me happy, and even more happily they are both great things. The age of the makers also reminds one of the fact that things made by a person at one point in time carry that maker's whole history of reference points, and indeed, I think the manner of painting on dog, painted in 1918, oil on wood, has a strong mid 19th