Red Spotted Old Carved Folk Art Monkey with Moving Arms boy on donkey or perhaps even birds

or perhaps even birds

The box measures 4 1/4” in diameter x 2 1/2” tall

I'm really touched by the humanity that emanates from her--it really feels like those rosy pink cheeks glow from a spirit within

Each cup" 4" tall x 3" across at handle x 1 3/4" deep

then hand-painted (there are remnants of one hand as well

Red Spotted Old Carved Folk Art Monkey with Moving Arms boy on donkey or perhaps even birdsThis wonderful monkey came from the estate of the late Chicago based collector and arts patron Ruth Horwich, who was among the founders of the Chicago's Museum of Contemporary Art in 1967, and later a Trustee. She and her husband Leonard collected for more than half a century an eclectic mix of folk, nave, and outsider art as well as many works by Chicago Imagists, and and a large collection of work by Alexander Calder. Clearly her great eye ran to