Antique Folk Art Pencil Sketches of Two Women picture frame with bird It reminds one that prior

It reminds one that prior to the popularity of picture postcards and personal cameras

still work perfectly

with a satisfying tension between positive and negative space and between the larger and smaller black forms

Each 12 1/2" l x 4 w x 1/8" d

Antique Folk Art Pencil Sketches of Two Women picture frame with bird It reminds one that priorI purchased these and several other pencil drawings by the same unknown artist from a dealer in Maine, who I believe purchased them some years ago from a notable Pennsylvania collection of naive drawings. Their maker certainly had a way with faces, and with conveying character through specific details, and I'm listing these two together as I imagine them as grandmother and granddaughter, with the elder home in her nightgown as the younger heads out to