Hand-carved Lounging Hound vintage art glass pull the handle

pull the handle

with a soft ochre yellow for the interior of the ears and black squiggles all over for the fur

Cubes measure about 1 1/8" square

he moved to Wisconsin to establish his studio in Johnson Creek and opened his gallery in the fall of 2002

long-nosed denizens of New York’s Upper West Side

Hand-carved Lounging Hound vintage art glass pull the handleI really love the face as well as the ultra long body of this carved wooden dog, which I understand from the seller was found in Cuba years ago. I'm terrible identifying species but with its long snout I have to think a hound, and looks maybe like a Borzoi to me? A good combination of elegant and just a bit goofy, looking as if luxuriating in a favorite spot, perhaps in front of a fire, and as if casting a smile in one's direction and almost as if