Relief Carved Folk Art Nude in Profile Signed Hemwind mid-century brass cheese wedge Embossed mark from Massachusetts at

Embossed mark from Massachusetts at top left corner

this one from 1927

established in 1870

resulting in a definite softening of any fierceness

Page size: 11 7/8” x 7 1/2”

Relief Carved Folk Art Nude in Profile Signed Hemwind mid-century brass cheese wedge Embossed mark from Massachusetts atA gently, tenderly done folk art relief carved panel, which I love especially for this young woman's voluptuous, sculptural hair do! A lovely face and long neck, too, rendered in profile, conveying a sense of focus, and poise, and determination. With a nicely carved raised frame around her, too, as if she herself were an image, hung like a portrait atop the panel. With some carving to the surface around her head, lending texture, and signed (carved)