19th C. Double-Sided Naive Graphite & Crayon Drawing: Blue Bonnet, Sunflowers, Strawberries Edwin w. Deming bear sculpture painstakingly executed by hand

painstakingly executed by hand

And as a spill vase was used to carry a flame from fireplace to candle or stove

1 3/8" l x 3/4"d x 3/8" w

It measures 6

19th C. Double-Sided Naive Graphite & Crayon Drawing: Blue Bonnet, Sunflowers, Strawberries Edwin w. Deming bear sculpture painstakingly executed by handThis is one of a handful of drawings I'm listing by the same (surely quite young) maker, found together in an old notebook already partially disassembled so I went ahead and separated them all. I'd guess 1870s or so, and all quite wonderful, with the people especially soulful this wild eyed pink cheeked girl in her blue bonnet a perfect case in point, looking a bit cat like, and also fiercely determined, and also perhaps possessed! The dramatic curve