Red Spotted Old Carved Folk Art Monkey with Moving Arms old whimsy or just hang via pinning

or just hang via pinning by the top corners

1870s or so--is so finely done

with a hanger on the back

the chain with loop is 4 3/4" long

with stairs marching down---I also love its internal tensions and contradictions

Red Spotted Old Carved Folk Art Monkey with Moving Arms old whimsy or just hang via pinningThis 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