Tall Bearded Man in Coat Old Canadian Folk Art Carving odd fellows mask now seemingly forgotten except among

now seemingly forgotten except among enlightened educational organizations

From Lynda Roscoe Hartigan's Made with Passion: The Hemphill Folk Art Collection in the National Museum of American Art (Washington

75" long x 3" wide x 1 5/8" tall

It's maker - who signed it J

Tall Bearded Man in Coat Old Canadian Folk Art Carving odd fellows mask now seemingly forgotten except amongI believe this tall, bearded fellow is Canadian, but I don't know much more than that. With these white spatters on his face, coat and pants, I like to think of him as an artist (perhaps a self portrait), though he also looks a bit as if he might be just in from a long day fishing out in the rain or snow. I really love the intensity of his face, with this piercing dark blue eyes and straight line of a red mouth, and his exaggerated height, which gives