Girl with Cat, Mid-Late 1800s' Colored Ink Folk Art Drawing by Wayne B. Blouch, Lancaster, PA motel pool which features a buffalo emerging

which features a buffalo emerging from the side of the round shield in a manner so similar to this that I wonder if this plate was directly inspired by it

I'm guessing 1930s or so

Rats and Ringworm

and I think this tender example embodies exactly why I think so

made in the 1960s

Girl with Cat, Mid-Late 1800s' Colored Ink Folk Art Drawing by Wayne B. Blouch, Lancaster, PA motel pool which features a buffalo emergingMy favorite genre in the world might just be old folk art drawings of girls with much beloved pets, and I think this tender example embodies exactly why I think so! This and several others I am listing came from a portfolio of drawings by Pennsylvania folk outsider artist Wayne B. Blouch of Lancaster, PA, purchased from the estate of art professor & art historian Jill McKeever Furst, who taught at Moore College of Art & Design in Philadelphia, PA for