Young Man on Red Stool with Painterly Rug, Antique Folk Art Painted Tintype antique english dish This thing weighs a ton

This thing weighs a ton

who almost seems as if lifted in from another scene entirely

Drawing is adhered with glue in some places to the board and cannot be separated

that Glazer-Fox bottle has a lovely amber glow

but I might think it's a robed monk (

Young Man on Red Stool with Painterly Rug, Antique Folk Art Painted Tintype antique english dish This thing weighs a tonI've become very enamored with antique folk art painted tintypes, and this example embodies exactly why wonderfully strange, rather surreal, and feeling quite out of time and place. Especially great helmet like hair on this serious young man in black suit, who seems 3 dimensional against the flat gray painted ground (making me think of a fotocultura), but best of all the electric feeling red and black detailing on his chair, and the painterly red and