Two Awkward Carved Nudes - ONLY LEFT NUDE AVAILABLE taxco The bottom half of the

The bottom half of the box features similar patterning on its sides

Signed on the underside

and a baseball player whirligig by well known South Dakota based contemporary folk artist Kent Gutzmer

where it has clearly been held many times

Two Awkward Carved Nudes - ONLY LEFT NUDE AVAILABLE taxco The bottom half of theRight nude SOLD; Left AVAILABLE One of my favorite genres of carvings has definitely become what I'd call awkward nudes clearly done with great care and sincerity, but not quite masterfully, with the faces especially betraying the idealized bodies and poses the carving was clearly hoping to achieve. For me, these embody a big part of what I love about folk art the embodiment of lots of aspiration, hard trying, and very often "failure". And so while