Set of Four Exuberant Crayon Drawn Mandalas by John Mosher, Grade 3, 1939 catalonian The handsomest young man there

The handsomest young man there

Overall size 11 1/2" x 9 1/4"

and stamped with a maker's mark

but I have to imagine the former informed the construction of later "crown of thorn" type frames and whimsies or garlands like this one

Set of Four Exuberant Crayon Drawn Mandalas by John Mosher, Grade 3, 1939 catalonian The handsomest young man thereI'm a total sucker for school drawings like this pure joy, and I think pretty transcendent. These were done by a young John Mosher in 1939, in third grade, and feel to me as if channeling both Pennsylvania hex stars and Froebel kindergarten cut paper designs but rendered with the immediacy of hard pressed crayon! Quite nice in a grid I think so am offering as a set. Each was folded along one edge to make the paper square. Paper size (as folded) of