Great Hand-painted Yellow Cutout Wooden Chicken on Orange Base Alice Nanogak print Phillips Collection

Phillips Collection

A great one for dangling or dramatically draping across the wall

A little research led me to discover that John A Manson Company at 253 Broadway in Manhattan (stamped on these copper mounts) was a hardware store

like a watercolor painting rendered in inky shades of mossy green and brown and cream

Den Helder

Great Hand-painted Yellow Cutout Wooden Chicken on Orange Base Alice Nanogak print Phillips CollectionThough 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