Marvelous Oil on Board Triple Portrait, with Logan Drake, Founder of Silver Beach Amusement Park copper stencil and with the seaweed beautifully

and with the seaweed beautifully arranged into a large cross

This one features naturally dyed red

and for the thinking and making process it represents

so it makes perfect sense that in Japan there is a tradition of carrying one of these carvings in a pocket

Marvelous Oil on Board Triple Portrait, with Logan Drake, Founder of Silver Beach Amusement Park copper stencil and with the seaweed beautifullyThis painting! I purchased it from a wonderful seller in Boston, who told me it has come from an estate connected to a traveling carousel somewhere on a lake in Michigan, and that the figure at right was the impresario but he wasn't sure of exactly where or the the name. Well, a little research led me to the amazing history of the Silver Beach Amusement Park in St. Joseph on Lake Michigan, launched in 1891 and of which a carousel was but a small part,