Strange Baby! 1930 Hand-colored Photo of Child with Objects, 10 Months Old, Original Frame 'three-dimensional drawings with light scattered graphite smudges

with light scattered graphite smudges

purchased at the Nashville show from an Iowa based dealer from whom I wished to buy everything--because for me

There is one little hairline crack on one planter that runs from the lip down about a third of the way on one planter

) but then these three steeples

and stable

Strange Baby! 1930 Hand-colored Photo of Child with Objects, 10 Months Old, Original Frame 'three-dimensional drawings with light scattered graphite smudgesA few strange ones today and this is definitely one of those! An original hand colored photograph in original frame, dated on the back; looks to read "About June 3, 1930, 10 months old." I'd say the hand coloring here did this child no favors their head looks almost as if superimposed on their little body, and the expression on this baby's face captures just the sort of bewilderment that makes it feel highly relatable, and really rather transcendent