Papillon in Dog House, Oil on Panel Folk Art Painting by Angie Montgomery, 1918, Age 84 contemporary decor 6 7/8 x 2 15/16

6 7/8 x 2 15/16 x 2 3/4” t

right after the field opened

and now on school-free spring break

this is not that

as the wealthy faced no real risk of going hungry

Papillon in Dog House, Oil on Panel Folk Art Painting by Angie Montgomery, 1918, Age 84 contemporary decor 6 7/8 x 2 15/16This is one of two artworks found in Nashville that were done by 80+ year old women, both in the late 1910s, which in and of itself makes me happy, and even more happily they are both great things. The age of the makers also reminds one of the fact that things made by a person at one point in time carry that maker's whole history of reference points, and indeed, I think the manner of painting on dog, painted in 1918, oil on wood, has a strong mid 19th