Vegetable Dolls Are Artistic Oddity. Miss Carrie Brauer, a gifted New York artist, makes funny dolls from all kinds of vegetables. She finds that their odd shapes and various colors make vegetables an especially suitable material.' Here Miss Brauer is buying "raw materials" at her grover's. She is probably his only customer who uses her purchases for such artistic purposes. November 23, 1940. (Photo by Jerry Cooke, Pix Publishing Inc.).