Chicks Eating Strawberries, Antique Folk Art Oil on Board, Original Frame vintage beach toys it's a perfect found object

it's a perfect found object to me

one sees wooden folk animals of this sort on green bases around from time to time but with variation among them so I think perhaps they were made according to plans

As seems to be the case with many types of things

frying pan

Sight: 6 7/8” x 4 3/4”

Chicks Eating Strawberries, Antique Folk Art Oil on Board, Original Frame vintage beach toys it's a perfect found objectSometimes a sweet and cheering old folk painting is just what's in order, and this one is very much that, making me very happy when I found it in inland southern Maine this week. Who can argue with fluffy yellow chicks and lushly ripe red strawberries? I love the big green cabbage leaf serving as a basket for the berries, too and the red dripping from the greedy little beaks of these two! Great carved wooden frame too in mellow gold paint, I believe