Arthur Tilo Alt Childhood Drawing of Carpenter, Berlin, WWII era acoma pottery bowl and American flag waving high

and American flag waving high

I've divided them up into groups--what you see is exactly what you'll get

I have found just a couple of other old carved folk art monkeys with a similar construction--seated like this

the relative simplicity and stoicism makes this one really great I think

Arthur Tilo Alt Childhood Drawing of Carpenter, Berlin, WWII era acoma pottery bowl and American flag waving highThis is among a several drawings I purchased together by Dr. Arthur Tilo Alt (1931 2019) a scholar and professor of German in Yiddish language and literature in the Judaic studies program at Duke University which came from his estate in Younsgsville, NC. Born in Java, Indonesia, Alt's family returned to their native Germany in 1933, where Tilo grew up in West Berlin, ultimately moving to the U. S. in 1956 to study at the University of Texas. While I