Yellow Roofs, Blue Boat, Tshibanda Muayabu Mid 20th C. Presumed Congolese Folk Art Tempera Painting wooden inuit carved figure For me it's the profile

For me it's the profile that really really makes it

This one is the notebook of Samuel Gifford

also called (1866–92) Sir William Thomson

but the more I look at it the more I love It for the body language of the children-- the way the boy rests his arm on the table and leans in

There are so many sorts of things I've fallen more and more in love with over time

Yellow Roofs, Blue Boat, Tshibanda Muayabu Mid 20th C. Presumed Congolese Folk Art Tempera Painting wooden inuit carved figure For me it's the profileI purchased this and a second watercolor by the same person at Brimfield, then immediately liberated them from old mats and frames upon returning home in order to really see them; they needed to see the light of day and the colors in this one are especially fantastic. (All they need now is to float against white in a very simple, clean, white or black frame.) The other is signed, twice Tshi Mua and Tshibanda Muayabu, I believe most likely Congolese,