Wonderful Large Carved Folk Art Muscleman Holding Basket Overhead rusty trivet It's the wonderful work of

It's the wonderful work of Emile Bluteau (1931-

tiles are 2 3/4" x 4 1/8" x 1/8" each

and those fantastic black dots that vary a bit in size from side to side and sometime come right up against the edges

Early 20th century I'd think

reading rather like an adobe house built into an anthropomorphic mountain with a protective arm extended out front carving out a private terrace

Wonderful Large Carved Folk Art Muscleman Holding Basket Overhead rusty trivet It's the wonderful work ofI don't know who made this folk art strongman, but I think he is really fabulous, and would be pretty great in an entryway offering an unforgettable spot to toss one's keys! Really, he looks to me most of all like an all American farm boy, maybe carrying a load of laundry in the basket overhead. And a super basket it is, too, nicely woven of colorful plastic wire cord of varying widths, with a wooden bottom, to which his hands are forever joined. Then