J PerLee Shilling Folk Art Painting of Yellow House with Green Sky in Grain Painted Frame fun nutcracker travelled the country for a

travelled the country for a period as itinerant puppeteers

a butterfly

which I'd guess were one affixed to the sides

These would be great just thrown in a big bowl

also known as Spellicans

J PerLee Shilling Folk Art Painting of Yellow House with Green Sky in Grain Painted Frame fun nutcracker travelled the country for aDetail photos give the best and most accurate sense of the wonderful off key colors and abundance of charms in this terrific earlyish 20th c. folk art painting, signed J. Perlee Shilling. I've found a Joshua PerLee Shilling (1885 1947) from a long line of Perlees and Shllings in Tuscaraw Township in Stark, Ohio, who I think was likely its maker, and I'd be willing to bet the painting is of the family home. It wins me on both a macro and micro scale