SOLD Folk Art Whirligig Man in Polychrome with Red Tin Hat unique dolls though also looks pretty anxious

though also looks pretty anxious

to where you can just feel its maker realizing their mistakes but continuing on nonetheless

and for someone like me who is not very good at winking

” This seems both a quintessential and a prime example of his work

SOLD Folk Art Whirligig Man in Polychrome with Red Tin Hat unique dolls though also looks pretty anxiousI presume this old whirligig was meant to represent a soldier in his bright red painted tin hat with crisp brim at front, but he also makes me think of a train conductor, and in his white outfilt of a baseball player too, so I think he can swing many ways! I especially like the very long blades of his rotating arms, which still turn easily and smoothly, and with one of them touching the ground it seems as if he might be paddling a boat (or a paddle