Boy with Dog 19th Century Folk Art "Sandpaper" Painting fifth edition Wizard of Oz Day created each piece of

Day created each piece of popcorn using carefully crafted molds

I purchased this piece from the estate sale of a former gallerist and great collector on Newbury Street in Boston that included an endless array of wonderful things

Or mount it on the wall and hang your keys from it

5 1/4" tall

which I have had no luck connecting with anything else

Boy with Dog 19th Century Folk Art "Sandpaper" Painting fifth edition Wizard of Oz Day created each piece ofThis marvelous thing is an antique "sandpaper painting" a technique popular in the mid 19th century, of creating charcoal drawings on paper coated with marble dust, which creates a surface with a fine grit like sandpaper. These are a pretty fascinating genre, typically monochromatic and most often depicting Hudson River landscapes, though one occasionally finds portraits and examples incorporating color, like this one. These most often were done by