Perfect Palette, Modern Style, C. Late 19th Century Windsor and Newton Nearly Untouched "Scholastic" Watercolors waif I'm not too much interested

I'm not too much interested in the usual forms

Paper size  18" x 15 3/8"

and understand that they were railroad signs--I assume this one (with reflective circle screwed on top of the painted yellow surface) signaled "caution"

” Perhaps this was carved upon that very occasion

which all but one of these Hills alphabet blocks are--in the most gorgeous old paint

Perfect Palette, Modern Style, C. Late 19th Century Windsor and Newton Nearly Untouched "Scholastic" Watercolors waif I'm not too much interestedMy first attraction to this watercolor set was for its perfection as an object, with the elongated, square cornered shape of the watercolor blocks, together with their crisp, apparent unused ness, just completely doing it for me aesthetically, in a manner akin to old paint swatch color cards and the like. This set also strikes me as perfectly embodying the transition to the modern the paint blocks cakes here are whole, and removable, as with 19th