Pair of Pleasant Hill Academy Folk Art Dolls

Circa 1930: Exhibited at the Washington County Museum of Fine arts in 1988, this outstanding pair of 13.5" tall solid-bodied wooden folk art dolls with original black painted shoes are fitted in period attire and are attributed to Polly Page at the Pleasant Hill Academy in Pleasant Hill, Tennessee. Their faces and hands were never painted and remain in a dry natural surface with a supeb patina that makes this wonderful pair of farmers look tanned from long days of labor in the fields. Additionally, these dolls come from Eleanor V. Lakin's personal collection and are illustrated on page 157 of Lakin's Folk Art for Children: Handmade in America 1760-1940.