Woman in Black with Painterly Tree, Curious Full Plate Folk Art Tintype folk art lunch box and my favorite to boater

and my favorite to boater himself in black coat and red scarf

and who doesn't know someone who could use a little recognition of their merits

1 1/8” wide and deep

it is almost translucent

and that metal wrap with row of nails along the top

Woman in Black with Painterly Tree, Curious Full Plate Folk Art Tintype folk art lunch box and my favorite to boaterShe's an odd one, with the soul of a poet to me and, with black paint covering all but the bottom edge of her dress (revealing its stripes), I keep thinking of her as something of a young Sandra Day O'Connor in her black robe, too! As with her dress, the drape at right is painted onto the full plate tintype in black and as with that marvelous passage along the bottom edge, where tintype photo meets abstract painting, so it does again in the very