Painted Cut Tin Bird on Branch scale model University of Delaware

University of Delaware

is justifiably signed on the back: Blanche Wood (what a name

and the other a lighter green-brown

Much better in person

I think it is in part its awkwardness that makes this appeal to me

Painted Cut Tin Bird on Branch scale model University of DelawareI really love the marbleized paint on this tin cutout bird on branch, making it feel a bit as if hovering in the shadows, or maybe persevering through snow and rain and wind. I believe tin cutouts like this were sometime used as quilt templates; whether that is the case with this one I am not sure, but it seems to have age to it. I might hang it in a corner fairly high up as if perched in a tree top and keeping watch. 9 3 4" t x 4 1 2" and in very