Giant Dog, Family, Women in Canoe - Double-Sided Watercolor carlotta huse with fantastically stylized forehead tapering

with fantastically stylized forehead tapering into wonderful almost-trunk like nose that feels as if shielding those deeply recessed eyes from the world

which is quite skillfully and confidently done

which shows a bit more like black in photos

at nearly a foot tall

There are no marks on these highly collectible dolls but the black belt around the waist was distinctive

Giant Dog, Family, Women in Canoe - Double-Sided Watercolor carlotta huse with fantastically stylized forehead taperingThis and one other today by the same maker the last of a handful I've had by that unknown person, which were salvaged from a large sketchbook that was pulled from the flooded, over full storage of a longtime collector. It's tragic to think of all that was lost (I understand the oversized sketchbook contained some 200 pages of drawings), with the few saved suggesting it would have blown my mind!!!! This is the largest of the salvaged drawings and I