#286

Three American Paper-Mache Storybook Puppets from W.P.A. Artists
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$450
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Description
16" (41 cm.) Depicting Flopsy,Mopsy and Farmer,each with paper- mache oversized heads having distinctive sculpting and painting,the bunnies with attached tall ears and green or brown painted eyes and buck tooth,cloth costumes,and carved wooden paws; and the Farmer with large googly-shaped eyes,applied beard,painted white hair and brows,with carved wooden hands and boots. Condition: generally excellent. Comments: from the Pennsylvania branch of the W.P.A. program designed to give work to starving artists during the Depression Era,circa 1935. Value Points: delightfully painted storybook figures in bright vivid colors,with original costumes.