Graphite and Watercolor Schoolgirl Portrait: Blanch, c. 1873 kewpie doll with a small clean tear

with a small clean tear along the right edge at the red shed roof

Plus the cocked eye of the second deer

she'd make a pretty great bookmark too

with some nice warming to the surface of the pine

the Yanomami are an indigenous tribe located in the Amazon rainforests of Brazil and Venezuela

Graphite and Watercolor Schoolgirl Portrait: Blanch, c. 1873 kewpie doll with a small clean tearFour of these I found together, only one of them dated on the back, locating them all I think in 1873. It seems they may each have been done by a different school girl each with a different name signed to the back, as well as a different subject named on the front. (Perhaps collected by a teacher?) A customer recently noted to me that naive drawings of this sort make her heart beat faster and the same is true for me, just pure joy, and also offering a