Wonderful Large Carved Folk Art Muscleman Holding Basket Overhead rusty trivet tiles are 2 3/4" x

tiles are 2 3/4" x 4 1/8" x 1/8" each

It's the wonderful work of Emile Bluteau (1931-

with these highly stylized stacked animals on opposite sides rendered in matte baby blue

dense on the front and sparser on the reverse

Moosilalauke

Wonderful Large Carved Folk Art Muscleman Holding Basket Overhead rusty trivet tiles are 2 3/4" xI don't know who made this folk art strongman, but I think he is really fabulous, and would be pretty great in an entryway offering an unforgettable spot to toss one's keys! Really, he looks to me most of all like an all American farm boy, maybe carrying a load of laundry in the basket overhead. And a super basket it is, too, nicely woven of colorful plastic wire cord of varying widths, with a wooden bottom, to which his hands are forever joined. Then