Perfect Old Pair of Carved Wooden Pumps girlhood and go after it

and go after it

imparting her with a great sense of strength and force (she rather reminds me of a figure from a Thomas Hart Benton painting

5 1/4" tall x 3 3/8" wide x 1 1/4" deep

with the surface of the wood left as was to define the darker color of his vest

and features a design of three cranes on top rendered in gold

Perfect Old Pair of Carved Wooden Pumps girlhood and go after itPhotos don't really capture the beauty of these carved shoes, and they make the wood, pine I believe, look a bit darker in spots than it is but so it is. (Trust me, they're great!) And for me it is very much about the two shoes as a pair, feeling like narrative full stand ins for an absent woman (who left them behind and is out wearing flats!) Sometimes carved miniature shoes like these were carved to house pin cushions, but there is no evidence here