Four Carved and Painted Pine Corporation Head Portraits circa 1910

thought to be portraits of the founders of a corporation in Albany, New York, circa 1910.  Each numbered I - IV on the back.

Roger Ricco, Frank Maresca, American Primitive Discoveries in Folk Sculpture, Alfred A. Knopf, New York, 1988, pp. 78-79, figs. 98-101.

Holly Solomon and Alexandra Anderson, Living with Art, Rizzoli International, New York, 1988, p. 75.

Four carved 'Corporation Heads'. Various age splits, cracks, re-paint, as consistent with age and use. Said to have come from the Albany New York area, where the heads represent portrait busts of officers of the company.
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