Haitian Landscape Painting with Animals, Signed ET WIndzor green white yellow while the pale blue underside

while the pale blue underside of the neck has a texture suggesting waves

The thin yet durable quality of bear grass allowed for a minute arrangement of warp and weft

and then lovely button closures on all sides

wear to the wood of his nose

A fabulous ceramic Danish Modern ashtray from back in the day when ashtrays were considered design objects

Haitian Landscape Painting with Animals, Signed ET WIndzor green white yellow while the pale blue undersideI found a trove of treasures at the estate sale of artist and gallerist Cynthia Numark Prelack, whose Iguana gallery on Boston's Newbury Street focused on the work of Haitian artists. From the many many Haitian paintings filling her brownstone, this is the one I brought home, as I fell in love with it immediately. I love the composition, organized around this river that runs from foreground to distant horizon, and which carves the landscape into three