Ballantine Ale c. 1950 Flat Top Copper Beer Cans Swedish folk art spoons with wear and some dryness/light

with wear and some dryness/light cracking to the wood (which I have not touched)

to reveal the white body beneath

These wooden clapsticks

What a lovely and elegant duck

Or perhaps it was used for storing tobacco

Ballantine Ale c. 1950 Flat Top Copper Beer Cans Swedish folk art spoons with wear and some dryness/lightI bought these cans in homage to Jasper Johns, who made them icons of art history through his Painted Bronze (Ale Cans), 1960, and a series of works on paper based on them. As the story goes, Bill de Kooning told Johns "you could give that son of a bitch two beer cans and he could sell them," referring to Leo Castelli, to which Johns responded, "what a wonderful idea for a sculpture. And while of course there is much more to the story than this, with