SOLD Possessed Looking Carved Kangaroo! gouache and colored pencil Ink and watercolor on paper

Ink and watercolor on paper

It thus felt rather serendipitous to find this Skansen souvenir (“minne

and one of my favorite things about some of them are their plated cedar bark bottoms--so I was sold immediately upon finding this one

I believe this drawing likely dates to the 1940s

This particular copy has an interesting provenance

SOLD Possessed Looking Carved Kangaroo! gouache and colored pencil Ink and watercolor on paperIt 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