African Folk Art Painting with Handwritten Story on Reverse Walker Art Center the vase is animated with

the vase is animated with expressionistically applied glazes of inky black and dark green

I found the pin at the estate sale of an African American family in Kansas City

Beautifully crafted in the 1960s

its face looks to me just like that of a big kitten

African Folk Art Painting with Handwritten Story on Reverse Walker Art Center the vase is animated withThis African folk art painting poses a bit of a mystery. It is emblematic of paintings from Zimbabwe and Cameroon, which similarly feature numerous figures and animals, engaged in various activities, rendered in wonderfully bright colors and patterns and, like this one, painted on panel as well as its surrounding frame. But what makes this one particularly intriguing is that pasted to the back of the painting and written in pencil in a childlike hand,