SOLD Folk Art Whirligig Man in Polychrome with Red Tin Hat unique dolls though also looks pretty anxious

though also looks pretty anxious

” This seems both a quintessential and a prime example of his work

looking very much the more poised of the two

and with all of the color hand-painted

and think these three sets together could occupy child and adult a like for quite a long time

SOLD Folk Art Whirligig Man in Polychrome with Red Tin Hat unique dolls though also looks pretty anxiousI presume this old whirligig was meant to represent a soldier in his bright red painted tin hat with crisp brim at front, but he also makes me think of a train conductor, and in his white outfilt of a baseball player too, so I think he can swing many ways! I especially like the very long blades of his rotating arms, which still turn easily and smoothly, and with one of them touching the ground it seems as if he might be paddling a boat (or a paddle