Red Spotted Old Carved Folk Art Monkey with Moving Arms boy on donkey Image size is 4 5/8

Image size is 4 5/8 x 5 1/2”

which most likely dates from the mid-20th century

Great lines

exuberant stubble

created in 1985 by “Ogden Cocktail Construction Co (with recipes by K McCarthy and approved by friends Gary

Red Spotted Old Carved Folk Art Monkey with Moving Arms boy on donkey Image size is 4 5/8This 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