Red Spotted Old Carved Folk Art Monkey with Moving Arms copper jewelry and keen attention to detail

and keen attention to detail

someone was wise to salvage them

I can think of nothing more beautiful to wrap up in than this gorgeous textile-- indigo dyed cotton Ikat from Sumba

the basket measures 6 1/2" tall

Red Spotted Old Carved Folk Art Monkey with Moving Arms copper jewelry and keen attention to detailThis wonderful monkey came from the estate of the late Chicago based collector and arts patron Ruth Horwich, who was among the founders of the Chicago's Museum of Contemporary Art in 1967, and later a Trustee. She and her husband Leonard collected for more than half a century an eclectic mix of folk, nave, and outsider art as well as many works by Chicago Imagists, and and a large collection of work by Alexander Calder. Clearly her great eye ran to