Great Hand-painted Yellow Cutout Wooden Chicken on Orange Base Alice Nanogak print Den Helder

Den Helder

Phillips Collection

and the brass looks very much to me like  melted down shell casings

and ferociously bared teeth

but refused

Great Hand-painted Yellow Cutout Wooden Chicken on Orange Base Alice Nanogak print Den HelderThough unsigned, if I had to guess, I might think this great wooden folk art chicken was the work of well known Georgia folk artist RA Miller (1912 2006) the silhouette and use of line is very similar, though perhaps it is a little too refined. At any rate, a pretty terrific chicken rooster? I think, with wonderfully graphic, black painted details and the perfect orange painted base. Super. 8 11 16" tall c 5 7 8" wide x 2 1 4" deep (at base); bird