Pink Roses Antique Watercolor #3 shackman japan and I'm glad it did

and I'm glad it did

) It really seems right that a single louse should be honored and preserved with this closely observed drawing

arms stretched before them

it still swivels smoothy but is a hair off flush when closed

This sketchbook was signed by Elton Silas Durkee (1871-1927

Pink Roses Antique Watercolor #3 shackman japan and I'm glad it didThis is one of three watercolors of roses I purchased together, I believe all found together too, perhaps done at the same time by three different members of a family, or maybe more likely schoolmates. I like them individually in different ways, but also together, variations on a theme becoming in a sense portraits of their makers. This one, the most "primitive" of the three I'd say, with shield at upper left, is signed (maybe with the named of a