Agapit Thibodeau Folk Art Dog Painting (on Cat Box Cardboard) in Handmade Frame early whimsy and think this is a

and think this is a pretty great one

and I'd think either put to work annually for many years

who clearly expended a great deal effort on him

and I think quite lovely in their simplicity

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

Agapit Thibodeau Folk Art Dog Painting (on Cat Box Cardboard) in Handmade Frame early whimsy and think this is aI 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