Naive 19th C Pennsylvania Watercolor Drawing of Boy with Sickle and Birds swirl glaze barely used

barely used

near the bottom

The drawings are at turns wonderfully simple and marvelously specific (those popcorn people

as both the painter and the subject are Kenyan

it would be pretty great just sitting on the counter

Naive 19th C Pennsylvania Watercolor Drawing of Boy with Sickle and Birds swirl glaze barely usedI never hesitate when I find 19th c watercolor drawings like this, likely done by a school child the combination of grace and awkwardness and immediacy, together with the use of color, just makes my heart ache. I found this, and another I am listing by the same person I believe, in Lancaster County, PA, and am pretty certain that is around where they originated. Most typically one finds these cut into smaller bits; rarer to find the complete original