Drawing Trees by Victor Perard 1945 First Edition studio pottery fish platter though there is no printing

though there is no printing left on it--the box measures 8" x 6 3/4"x1 3/4"

among whom he lived for a part of each year for most of his life

and often several of them together

Colors are orange

architect and MIT librarian and fell in love with it at once

Drawing Trees by Victor Perard 1945 First Edition studio pottery fish platter though there is no printingBefore Bob Ross, there was Victor Perard, teaching us how to draw faces, anatomy, horses, dogs, hands, flowers and trees! I really love the production of this 1945 first edition of Drawing Trees, with horizontal format, paper cover, cream newsprint like pages and handwritten text, making it feel super immediate, like a workbook to be taken out into the forest and indeed, there are blank pages inserted between sections. The pages themselves are packed