Radiant Peach! Antique Theorem Watercolor on Watermarked Paper carved stuff box an elementary school teacher in

an elementary school teacher in Ossining

primarily along bottom left edges

purchased this week from the case of one of my favorite dealers at an antiques shop in New Hampshire

Photos don't quite do justice to this one--getting enough light on the painting blows out the gold of the frame

old iron nails all over

Radiant Peach! Antique Theorem Watercolor on Watermarked Paper carved stuff box an elementary school teacher inOne of three super saturated, strongly graphic old theorem watercolors of fruit today, purchased together in Pennsylvania and making me think about the kinship between theorems (made using stencils, and I believe with glass straws used for blowing the base level of watercolor paint) and airbrushed designs. Surely all done by one person, and a faint penciled number at the corner of each suggests they were likely part of a larger series (one sees