Relief Carved Folk Art Nude in Profile Signed Hemwind mid-century brass cheese wedge Page size: 11 7/8” x

Page size: 11 7/8” x 7 1/2”

this one from 1927

resulting in a definite softening of any fierceness

which looks to have been produced by Sam Schartz Co

Relief Carved Folk Art Nude in Profile Signed Hemwind mid-century brass cheese wedge Page size: 11 7/8” xA gently, tenderly done folk art relief carved panel, which I love especially for this young woman's voluptuous, sculptural hair do! A lovely face and long neck, too, rendered in profile, conveying a sense of focus, and poise, and determination. With a nicely carved raised frame around her, too, as if she herself were an image, hung like a portrait atop the panel. With some carving to the surface around her head, lending texture, and signed (carved)