Lone Horseman Under Smoky Sky, Beautiful and Evocative Antique Tintype watercolor of violets with a sort of Joseph

with a sort of  Joseph Beuys locked in a room for three days with a coyote kind of elementailsm to it

which makes me happy every time I look at it

slightly irregular in shape and with what looks like a bit of light staining/toning to the white paint at the lower far right side

and would be glad to have piles and piles of them

Sight:9 1/2" x 7 1/2"

Lone Horseman Under Smoky Sky, Beautiful and Evocative Antique Tintype watercolor of violets with a sort of JosephOne of two tintypes today purchased from a favorite dealer in Cohoes, NY and total love at first sight with this one, which the dealer referred to as "The Lone Horseman." Indeed. And while most everything feels existential to me these days, certainly this portrait of a very solitary seeming, very young (Native?) man in his hat on his horse out in the land with smoky looking sky sure does. The smoky swirls of the sky appear to be a flaw of development,