Ice House at Coes Pond, Perfectly Naive 1889 Watercolor Drawing stick pins like me (who might also

like me (who might also use it just for drawing angles and straight lines)

I've wound up feeling like this little watercolor is actually a pretty potent image of power disparity

which makes the reveal all the better

with tiny holes down one edge from where it was stitched into a notebook and some staining to one bottom corner

and several more on top of that at the corners

Ice House at Coes Pond, Perfectly Naive 1889 Watercolor Drawing stick pins like me (who might alsoThe richness of the palette really makes this old drawing painting for me the ochres of the road, rendered with painterly dashes, and the whole spectrum of reds and brows and greens. Quite lovely, and feels very warm toward this place described as the Ice House at Coes Pond along the bottom, which a little research tells me places it near Worcester, MA. In those days 1889 here ice was harvested from ponds in the winter, a labor performed by dozens of