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1978 Two wooden mice: country and city. Creation of student Moira Walsh at Holy Cross College. 7” x 4.25”. Gift of Moira Walsh.
Classicists recognize TMCM from its delightful presentation in Horace’s Satire II, 6. This is among the most delightful of the student creations responding to the classical literature we read. I look back on it as a prefigurement of my fascination with fables. What a lovely exercise of imagination!
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1987 Five East German carved foxes, one with a distinctly shorter tail.
1980? East German wood carving of FG. Two exemplars, gifts of Margaret Carlson Lytton and David Daly.
2012 Two original art works by Zsofia Szeleczky. 7.5" square. .5" thick. Budapest: Hungary. Unknown source.
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FC emphasizes the fox by giving him a color of his own. The only other color not black or white is the cheese. Szeleczky again has fun with the scene by adding leaves, sprouts, musical notes, and three pairs of (young fox?) eyes in the left tree.
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FS has a number of engaging features. Note the swirling black and white in both trees and both tree stumps. Do not miss the elongated legs of the stork, the little fish inside the bases, the owl in the tree, or the steam arising from the frustrated fox. His angry stare is expressive! Well done, Zsofia! |
2018 Literary Wall Tile Set: Aesop's Fable: The Lion and the Statue. Each 5½" x 5½". $35 from Literature Lodge, East Taunton, MA through Etsy, August, '18,
Very nice workmanship. Isolating the text and moral in one quadrant is successful here, as is Linton's moral: The story depends on the teller." As the artist's illustration shows, the tiles appear best when given the appropriate small space between their edges. Fables show up in so many places!
2020? Wooden tortoise and hair figures. 3½' x 1¾" (tortoise) and 3¾" x 2¼" (hare). The Wooden Storyteller, Spokane, Washington. Gift of Maureen Hester, Dec., '19.
Beautiful woodworking. Simple figures. Lovely grain. And a great feel in the hand! Aesop lives!
2020? Twelve 1¾” square thin wooden tiles representing each a page from Walter Crane’s book of Aesop’s fables. $10.72 from ShapeShifterUK, London, through Etsy, Jan., ’21.
Delightful, exact woodwork! I think Walter Crane would be delighted to see his work carried on this way! The twelve tiles include the front cover and list of illustrations.
To view the whole set, use this illustration and click on it to enlarge it:
To view an individual tile, click on it in this illustration:
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