Super Sculptural (and Surreal-esque) Old and Rusty Barbed Wire Ball first Aid box Hudson River school I believe

Hudson River school I believe

Collapsed: 14 1/2" in diameter

is signed (maybe with the named of a school

Creamy white and black paint on heavy board

In this case the location is Manchester

Super Sculptural (and Surreal-esque) Old and Rusty Barbed Wire Ball first Aid box Hudson River school I believeI guess barbed wire balls are a thing people made, and make but I don't believe I've ever actually come across one before, and to me this thing is rather transcendent as an object and a sculpture, making me think at least as much of Meret Oppenheim, say, as it does of a tumbleweed. No small feat to form such a dense and beautifully composed sphere as this while navigating the strength of the iron wire and its barbs either (!), yielding an object both