Antique American Folk art puppet carved wood artists doll Milt Simpson Estate. Amazing item on high quality museum grade stand. This is from the Estate of Milton Simpson, author of several books and publications of Folk a. He was the graphic designer who discovered the Woodbridge figures collection in New Jersey. Not the construction worker that found them but the person who purchased them all from a local pawn shop and recognized their importance. There is a very high probability this piece is published in one or more of his books/publications. It's a great hand carved, one of a kind piece. It's 9" tall and happens to be painted black, if it were painted white, green, yellow, purple it would be equally important in my eyes, really just a strange and wonderful thing with these orange breasts, etc.

Milton Simpson (1911-2023)
Milton – also known by his friends and acquaintances as Milt - was born and raised in Brooklyn, New York City and raised his family in Millburn, New Jersey.
He attended the New York School of Industrial Art (SIA), now the School of Art and Design. He then worked for Incorporated Ideas Advertising Agency in New Jersey before joining the United States Army, serving in Korea.
After his discharge from the Army, Milt attended The Workshop School of Advertising & Editorial Art. Upon completion of his studies there, he became the Art Director of The American Baby Magazine in New York, Assistant Art Director at Lewin, Williams & Saylor in New Jersey, and then Art Director of Kenyon-Baker Advertising & Baker Printing Company, (both of which were under one roof) in New Jersey. (He left there because the promised air conditioner was never installed!)
He then worked as a freelance graphic designer and illustrator for several years.
In 1964, he and business partner Don Johnson founded the firm of Johnson & Simpson Graphic Designers with Milt as president. They were based in a townhouse in beautiful downtown Newark, New Jersey and specialized in corporate communications. The design projects they took in included annual reports, corporate magazines, capability brochures, posters, museum catalogs, trademarks and books. Their clients included Conoco, Johnson & Johnson, New Jersey Bell, Hoffmann-La Roche, The Newark Museum and Singer Corporation.
The firm was featured in every major design publication, was recognized by over 350 graphic design awards and he and Don were inducted into the New Jersey Ad Club's Advertising Hall of Fame in 1991.
Milt also served on the Advisory Board of The Greater Newark Chamber of Commerce and was an Adjunct Professor (Publication Design) at Montclair State College.
The New Jersey Art Directors Club voted Milt Art Director of the Year in 1972.
Books were his passion. He couldn't seem to get them out of his system and didn't try to. For many years he produced and self-published a series of Artists' Books using several print-on-demand platforms. Milt was always a student and appreciator of quirky, eccentric and irrational human behavior. These Artists' Books were very much influenced by his observations and obsessions.
Among many others too numerous to mention, he wrote "Windmill Weights" which was self-published and "Folk a" published by HarperCollins.