Andersen Design Studio Mid-Century Stoneware Vase with Tree perfume bottle He's been carefully hand-painted with

He's been carefully hand-painted with a sweet face

plus big black boots for hopping along

It measures about 10" top to bottom along the round edge and about 13" across (I folded it in half and measured 6 1/2" from nose to edge on each side

The painting will be carefully packaged in glassine between sheets of cardboard

Based on a second drawing I found inside the frame I removed it from

Andersen Design Studio Mid-Century Stoneware Vase with Tree perfume bottle He's been carefully hand-painted withI found this c. 1960s Andersen Design vase not far from where it was made, in East Boothbay, Maine. It's a quintessential example of the work of Weston (1922 2015) and Brenda Andersen, who founded the studio in 1952. To me it feels one part brutalist, one part organic modern, and one part pure Maine! The body, with a bit of a grainy texture, is kind of a stony gray bisque, and the wonderfully branching bare tree an earthy brown. There were a few