Walter Easton's Most Wonderful Mid 19th Century Handmade Booklet of Naive Graphite and Watercolor Drawings night scene 1950s pastel drawings by Tatiana

1950s pastel drawings by Tatiana McKinney (1909-2008) I have in the shop--and they are both truly luminous

declaring each to either represent rouge or noir (red or black)--making it more like a game of casino roulette

Each 4"t x 4" w x 3" d and in very good condition

But what makes this one particularly intriguing is that pasted to the back of the painting and written in pencil in a childlike hand

4 5/8" x 3"and in good condition

Walter Easton's Most Wonderful Mid 19th Century Handmade Booklet of Naive Graphite and Watercolor Drawings night scene 1950s pastel drawings by TatianaSome things call to me and then some things get my heart racing fast and this is very much one of the latter. Pure and total joy. These sorts of things are getting harder and harder to find, and more and more precious when they surface and no wonder! C. 1850, purchased from a dealer in Vermont, with six watercolored drawings in it, each captioned in that very best sort of all caps child's lettering, the child in this case a young Walter Easton, who