Two Houses with Gestural Trees, Henry Hinkel Crayon Drawing, 1913, Lancaster NY hand-coiled The hook at the top

The hook at the top is not quite aligned with the drawing

or ice cream

with just a bit of curling

but these six have survived

Two Houses with Gestural Trees, Henry Hinkel Crayon Drawing, 1913, Lancaster NY hand-coiled The hook at the topOne of a handful today pulled from the already falling apart sketchbook of a young Henry Henkel of Lancaster, NY, who wrote his name many times all over it including all over the back side of this drawing. I always love a naive house drawing, but here especially for the trees paired with each of houses, as if expressive of each of their natures, with the tree dramatically draping over the side of the yellow house seeming as if clinging to it really,