Roses and Buds on Thorny Stems, Lush 1840s Watercolor Theorem wooden jaguar mask a photo of a photo

a photo of a photo of John and Jacqueline Kennedy

MA features two of its best

professionally framed in birds eye maple

I think there's nothing like weathered and scuffed creamy white paint on wood

and all of them pretty sweet I think

Roses and Buds on Thorny Stems, Lush 1840s Watercolor Theorem wooden jaguar mask a photo of a photoJust lovely, I could look at early theorem watercolors like this all day, to my eye so lush and radiant and almost electric feeling. Contemporary feeling too; the concentration of color along the hard edges (created using stencils, and blowing paint with a glass straw), as on the rose petals here, always makes me think of the paintings of Roger Brown. I know from the other two I found this one with, clearly by the same maker, that it dates to the late