AM's Boys in Red and Orange: Small Framed Antique Pennsylvania Fraktur Type Watercolor smiling snowman excepting a dark red dye

excepting a dark red dye used on the eye lids

I have a notion that it may be a fairly early piece by master Acoma pottery Delores S

who has seen just about everything

and I love that both hands look as if gloved) and the crouching catcher

With soft focus to everything around her

AM's Boys in Red and Orange: Small Framed Antique Pennsylvania Fraktur Type Watercolor smiling snowman excepting a dark red dyeI purchased this small watercolor from a dealer in Pennsylvania, about 2 minutes after it appeared on Ebay I believe. And Pennsylvania is certainly where it was made, quintessential Fraktur style naive watercolor, c. 1860s 80s I believe. Nothing I love more than a watercolor drawing like this, and a what a pair these two boys in their rich red tunics and orange pants and bright yellow collars with blue ties, heads together as if conspiring. And with