Relief Carved Folk Art Nude in Profile Signed Hemwind mid-century brass cheese wedge resulting in a definite softening

resulting in a definite softening of any fierceness

color is very bright and crisp

must have been out of town

Embossed mark from Massachusetts at top left corner

this one from 1927

Relief Carved Folk Art Nude in Profile Signed Hemwind mid-century brass cheese wedge resulting in a definite softeningA 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)