Agapit Thibodeau Folk Art Dog Painting (on Cat Box Cardboard) in Handmade Frame carved wooden whimsy inserted into the driftwood

inserted into the driftwood

Plenty of age toning/spotting

so I don't think it has anything to do with that

to which shading and additional detail was then added—here right down to patterning on the veins of the leaves and very tiny lower wings of the smaller butterfly here

Agapit Thibodeau Folk Art Dog Painting (on Cat Box Cardboard) in Handmade Frame carved wooden whimsy inserted into the driftwoodI have turned up very little about the Agapit Thibodeau (b. 1896, Brantville New Brunswick, Canada) who made this piece I believe in the early 1980s, shortly before his death but I think I am pretty certain I would have really liked him! What a wonderful dog, which I take for a huge snuggly St. Bernard, and which seems perhaps to be emerging from a dog house, though it could be an underpass, and maybe these are train tracks in front of him, or it