20th Century American Folk Art Cow and Tree Silhouette on Custom Wall Mount

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Cut from sheet steel and weathered to a deep, honest rust, this 20th century American folk art silhouette carries the … Read more Cut from sheet steel and weathered to a deep, honest rust, this 20th century American folk art silhouette carries the quiet authority of something that once lived outdoors. A cow stands beneath a broad-canopied tree, both anchored to a long directional arrow that suggests motion, wind, and open land. The shape recalls a weathervane, yet it is flat, more emblem than instrument, more sign than tool.

The negative spaces are as compelling as the forms themselves: the cutouts at the legs, the curve beneath the belly, the spare trunk rising into cloudlike foliage. It feels handmade in the truest sense, designed by eye, balanced by instinct.

We found it in Wisconsin, though its beginnings are lost to pasture and time. One imagines it marking a lane, a dairy, a boundary line.

Now mounted on a custom steel bracket, it floats against the wall, a piece of rural poetry rendered in steel. See less