Marvelous Folk Art Carved Female Bust surfing This is a limited edition

This is a limited edition stone-cut (from an edition of 24 I believe) hand-printed at the Holman Eskimo Co-operative in Holman

The Andersen Studio has a long history as a pioneer ceramic design and slip casting studio producing functional and decorative objects

and to head out together on long walks through the countryside

like they always existed in the ether and were just waiting to be put to paper--like this one

Marvelous Folk Art Carved Female Bust surfing This is a limited editionAmong my very favorite figurative carvings I've had, I'd guess this beauty dates to the 1930s 40s or so, and is many times more great in person. To me she seems wonderfully self possessed and also as if she might be holding a secret, which she might or might not be on the cusp of revealing; just the sort of carving one might carry on an ongoing conversation with! Surprisingly, she appears not to be signed, unless there is a name carved into the