Tall Bearded Man in Coat Old Canadian Folk Art Carving odd fellows mask From Lynda Roscoe Hartigan's Made

From Lynda Roscoe Hartigan's Made with Passion: The Hemphill Folk Art Collection in the National Museum of American Art (Washington

made to slip into the pocket or purse of the smoker on the go

Plus a reminder to stay alert

and the other with a gridded rectangle

now seemingly forgotten except among enlightened educational organizations

Tall Bearded Man in Coat Old Canadian Folk Art Carving odd fellows mask From Lynda Roscoe Hartigan's MadeI believe this tall, bearded fellow is Canadian, but I don't know much more than that. With these white spatters on his face, coat and pants, I like to think of him as an artist (perhaps a self portrait), though he also looks a bit as if he might be just in from a long day fishing out in the rain or snow. I really love the intensity of his face, with this piercing dark blue eyes and straight line of a red mouth, and his exaggerated height, which gives