Trimmed and Partially Hand-colored 1912 Press Photo of Puma vintage sketch and a series of works

and a series of works on paper based on them

Some aging and natural darkening to the wood including a dark spot on his shoulder on one side but overall very good condition and really terrific

I think this is tin glaze on a red clay body

but I couldn’t resist it for the determined effort of its maker to fully honor the fantastic patterns of the wood duck in a most excellent palette

The figure to me has a bit of the feel of Adam in the Garden of Eden

Trimmed and Partially Hand-colored 1912 Press Photo of Puma vintage sketch and a series of worksFrom the caption on the back of it, it seems this 1912 photograph was used for a Tribune story that somehow related to the relationship between Puma and elks ("the Puma, or mountain lion, was formerly the elk's worst enemy" suggesting that either Puma's had decided to lay off elks or that a fiercer predator of elks had emerged.) Whatever the case, what a beautiful creature, certainly looking like the king of his domain here and also in perfect