Vintage Best Wishes Greeting Card with Turkey & Grapes

The grapes seem convinced they are the main event here—rendered in obsessive, almost fetishistic detail in shades of green, gold, and deep purple, they have completely colonized this card, leaving precious little room for the actual holiday mascot. Said mascot, a lone turkey standing in front of a quaint house with a red roof, has been demoted to a tiny oval vignette nested within the grape chaos, as if the artist suddenly remembered at the last minute that this was, technically, a Thanksgiving card. The text reads 'Best Thanksgiving Wishes,' which feels like an afterthought scrawled in cursive gold after someone spent three weeks lovingly painting fruit. National Bird Series 351, catalogued for posterity: the one where the grapes won.