Very Large Antique Pen and Ink Bull Portrait in Period Frame framed hair art with their sculptural forms and

with their sculptural forms and interesting color palettes—and the surface of these is wonderfully alligatored to boot

of Sterling Illinois in 1925

These old stone fruit grapes were one of my favorite Brimfield finds

with the little wire-legged birds on either side riding along for company

Signed in syllabics with disc number and dated 1982 on the inside

Very Large Antique Pen and Ink Bull Portrait in Period Frame framed hair art with their sculptural forms andWhen I spotted this bull from quite a distance in Vermont this past week, I had two immediate thoughts. First, its scale and pen work made with think of Spencerian drawings minus all of the calligraphic flourishes which seems right when rendering the proud head of a bull! Second, as someone who spent many years living in Kansas City, I thought this one really should find a home in the midwest, perhaps ideally on the wall of an old school steakhouse,