Large, Brilliantly Painted 1940 Folk Art Tabletop Desk, with Roosters still life 5 5/8" across at base

5 5/8" across at base

this beautiful woven textile would be stunning as a runner on the dining table (how about underneath a huge platter of colorful roasted root vegetables

and the fly on its tongue

who signed it

and 2 5/8"across at the base

Large, Brilliantly Painted 1940 Folk Art Tabletop Desk, with Roosters still life 5 5/8" across at baseThere are times when I am simply incapable of not buying something, and rationalize that even if no one else falls in love with it, I'll be happy just to keep it for myself. Like this gloriously hand painted desk, signed on the back "To my son, Da Mumma" and dated 1940. It's large to be a lap desk, but would be a handy thing to stash all of one's stuff inside in order to move from table to table, wherever one want might to work, or draw, or paint, and