African Folk Art Painting with Handwritten Story on Reverse Walker Art Center 11” wide x 68” long

11” wide x 68” long

Beautifully crafted in the 1960s

There is wear to this box consistent with its age

Or turn it upside down--it sits squarely on the ears and snout--and use it as a vase or even as a planter

its face looks to me just like that of a big kitten

African Folk Art Painting with Handwritten Story on Reverse Walker Art Center 11” wide x 68” longThis African folk art painting poses a bit of a mystery. It is emblematic of paintings from Zimbabwe and Cameroon, which similarly feature numerous figures and animals, engaged in various activities, rendered in wonderfully bright colors and patterns and, like this one, painted on panel as well as its surrounding frame. But what makes this one particularly intriguing is that pasted to the back of the painting and written in pencil in a childlike hand,