Yellow House, Blue Doors, 1905 Graphite and Crayon Drawing by J.H. Adair, Spring Grove, PA antique hooked rug frame for quite a long

frame for quite a long time

with a sandpaper finish to the surface of the dark red and dark blue painted frame that of course makes one think of sandpaper (marble dust) drawings from around the same time as this charcoal

and is   now featured in major museum collections including the Met

I've found a few auction records for landscapes by Coad

clearly somewhere on the water

Yellow House, Blue Doors, 1905 Graphite and Crayon Drawing by J.H. Adair, Spring Grove, PA antique hooked rug frame for quite a longI purchased this and several more drawings by the same maker from a seller in Pennsylvania, where they originated, the work of a J. H Adair of Spring Grove, PA, who signed a few of them and dated a couple 1905. These are the sorts of drawings that get me excited; I couldn't snatch them up fast enough! And to my eye this yellow house is perfection, feeling about as iconic naive PA folk drawing c. 1900 as it gets. Several more by Adair listed today,