SOLD Possessed Looking Carved Kangaroo! gouache and colored pencil This particular copy has an

This particular copy has an interesting provenance

but someone definitely put some love and effort into this

There is a little hole at the center of the decorative cutout at top by which it could be pinned directly to the wall

I believe this drawing likely dates to the 1940s

as one of the boxes in this obsessively detailed attic reads “Bar Harbor Dress Shop

SOLD Possessed Looking Carved Kangaroo! gouache and colored pencil This particular copy has anIt took me a moment to place this curious creature, but I'm pretty certain its meant to be a kangaroo. And rather a possessed looking one too, though I think really just in need of some love! And actually, as I look at photographs of kangaroo as I write this, I might say this carver did manage to capture some of their strangeness fairly well and perhaps this one is meant to be a protective mother! Incidentally, the terms for male and female kangaroos