Wolf Walks Away, Vintage Folk Art Painting pressed metal pillbox The carved wooden handles feature

The carved wooden handles feature metal caps and a lock that holds it open tightly

The year 1855 appears on one plate

whose Iguana gallery on Boston's Newbury Street focused on the work of Haitian artists

and I have now found a few examples of others similar--all quite extraordinary (and quite precious

made all the better by lots off scrapes and wear

Wolf Walks Away, Vintage Folk Art Painting pressed metal pillbox The carved wooden handles featureNot a great painting to be sure, but it makes me happy every time I look at, with what I take for a wolf (though perhaps just a big black dog) turning its back and walking away from what I assume are a couple of grazing goats. (If only Vladimir Putin would do the same!) It seems pretty clear that the L. Elgart who painted this had a pretty great time doing so, adding a few flying crows to the blue sky, plus a sunrise or sunset, and all sorts of