LION with Huge Red Lipped Smile, Marvelous Large Pastel on Paper Folk Drawing, Framed as Found wooden and iron spokeshave I keep wanting to call

I keep wanting to call this one "look homeward angel

old chip to one corner and a bit of warping (when laid flat on a surface

and I have since found a couple of other examples of this specific apothecary case out there--one at Bonham's

gentle and true

I believe the lid was likely to a paint can--it's about that size--and of course I love a painting made on whatever happens to be sitting around

LION with Huge Red Lipped Smile, Marvelous Large Pastel on Paper Folk Drawing, Framed as Found wooden and iron spokeshave I keep wanting to callI wish I knew everything about this one but I don't. I know it lived in a New England collection for many years, the same collection as the 1817 Lady Justice watercolor listed today; I purchased both from relatives, and know this lion was the owner's favorite. No wonder! It feels to me more more like a work of a self taught artist than a child, and a bit more "outsider" than "folk" a visionary version of a lion, though very much in conversation with a