Ice House at Coes Pond, Perfectly Naive 1889 Watercolor Drawing edwin and mary scheier a little tape will hold

a little tape will hold it very tight or another solution could easily be improvised

Definitely made in Japan (he bears a very close resemblance to a few Japanese hand-puppets I've had in stock)

for all different sorts of reasons

and came from a portfolio of watercolors--and looking at feels to me a bit like taking a deep breath

Ice House at Coes Pond, Perfectly Naive 1889 Watercolor Drawing edwin and mary scheier a little tape will holdThe richness of the palette really makes this old drawing painting for me the ochres of the road, rendered with painterly dashes, and the whole spectrum of reds and brows and greens. Quite lovely, and feels very warm toward this place described as the Ice House at Coes Pond along the bottom, which a little research tells me places it near Worcester, MA. In those days 1889 here ice was harvested from ponds in the winter, a labor performed by dozens of