Cottage with Many Flowers and Milk Maid, Charming Naive Painting on Paper echo with an expression that seems

with an expression that seems both surprised and keenly alert

These well-worn wooden toy bowling pins--one of two sets I found at a recent estate sale--are just wonderful objects to have around

requiring more than a simple turn of blocks to move from one image to the next

The production of these "trinket" baskets became a cottage industry in the 1860s and reached its height in the 1930s

Cottage with Many Flowers and Milk Maid, Charming Naive Painting on Paper echo with an expression that seemsI extricated this charmer from an old frame and mat with hopes of finding it clean and dry, and indeed it is, tempera or watercolor on paper well mounted to a piece of thin cardstock cardboard. And what a lot of joy painting it clearly brought to RR Strang, who signed their name at lower right those exuberantly painted passages of densely packed flowers alone seem like a total celebration. I'm not entirely sure the gender of the older person standing