Agapit Thibodeau Folk Art Dog Painting (on Cat Box Cardboard) in Handmade Frame early whimsy Sight: 6 7/8” x 4

Sight: 6 7/8” x 4 3/4”

These appear to be made of steel plate and welded to their bases rather than being made cast iron

who clearly expended a great deal effort on him

the ball jade

and think this is a pretty great one

Agapit Thibodeau Folk Art Dog Painting (on Cat Box Cardboard) in Handmade Frame early whimsy Sight: 6 7/8” x 4I have turned up very little about the Agapit Thibodeau (b. 1896, Brantville New Brunswick, Canada) who made this piece I believe in the early 1980s, shortly before his death but I think I am pretty certain I would have really liked him! What a wonderful dog, which I take for a huge snuggly St. Bernard, and which seems perhaps to be emerging from a dog house, though it could be an underpass, and maybe these are train tracks in front of him, or it