Ultra Naive 19th Century Crayoned Portrait of Girl with Halo-like Bonnet in Wonderful Period Frame antique rope and wire gauge soulful looking young man

soulful looking young man

circa 1930s-40s

and with all sorts of handwritten notations on them in ink too

A perfect smallish planter

A little research has led me to learn that the Dorothy Washburn--who made these three drawings on Boston hotel letterhead--was from a notable Boston family

Ultra Naive 19th Century Crayoned Portrait of Girl with Halo-like Bonnet in Wonderful Period Frame antique rope and wire gauge soulful looking young manI bought this one first and foremost for myself I very much identify with this girl! but as she feels to me somehow like the perfect embodiment of transition from winter to spring, and a wonderful embodiment of awkward exuberance too, I thought someone else might need her company. What she has in her hands I'm not sure, but it feels like bright green flashes of electricity! And then this bonnet, which also looks like a glowing halo. Plus what looks