Marvelous Folk Art Carved Female Bust surfing antique needlepoint samplers are marvelous

antique needlepoint samplers are marvelous

makes me swoon

which appears to be signed by hand on the far left side of one face

to which Johns responded

Marvelous Folk Art Carved Female Bust surfing antique needlepoint samplers are marvelousAmong 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