Thomas Jefferson (I Presume) in Red Coat, Naive Ink and Watercolor in Antique Frame corn and beans separating her from the realm

separating her from the realm of the painting in the background

Near impossible to read the hand-painted cursive text along the bottom of this one

and great beauty to the wrapping and tying of the ends to the boards

With the large flag waving on a curiously short pole

Thomas Jefferson (I Presume) in Red Coat, Naive Ink and Watercolor in Antique Frame corn and beans separating her from the realmI take this as a portrait of Thomas Jefferson, who loved a red coat; I don't know for sure, but at a moment when it feels like sight of the founding vision for the United States should not be lost, I'll call him so. Here looking especially quiet and contemplative, with what I take for wall paper pattern surrounding him, and, aside from his rich red coat and gray hair, looking almost as if about to fade into the ether. Under glass in a nice old wooden