HP Noel's attention to film speeds and proper lighting produced compulsive work that is more accomplished than most studios. His own family generations deep in the region, Noel perfectly documented a small American town during the early...
Fantastically sinister headstock and fire blistered, alligator varnish gives it presence. Sheet metal construction with an absurdly sized three piece neck, the headstock splinted in to meet an entirely hand formed nut. Nothing standard: Body measures...
This one speaks. Not a random mash of personal tokens as is so common with this form, but more an assembled power object. A meticulous and considerate theme of human interaction with the animal and natural...
Child's toy pattern cut from grocery advertising cardboard. Campbell's Soup and more, graphic!
Torso measures 7.5", something like 10 x 13" laid out whole. Very good condition with foxing.
Imagine the emotional weight that kept these safe in a drawer and then for three more generations. George Wharton Edwards, director of the Art Department at Colliers, The Metropolitan Magazine, Wide World Magazine (London), The New York...
BOLD graphic and delicate details. Aged red velvet with faint pastel satin ribbon roses on heavy black cotton. Sweet religious totem made by hand. Measures 17” square with raw edge at bottom, seam split top right...
In memory of Little Bun, who was killed on the 1st day of May 1837 / By a wicked monster called a Cat / Aged 4 months & 8 days / Poor little thing lived but an hour and...
Unsettling and sweet at once. Likely a school assignment, fabulously folky pencil drawings and written reports boasting the superiority of Italian soil and the new economic plans for farmers under Benito Mussolini. M’s Battle for...
Found separately, but made for one another. White doll measures 8” (longer with skirt), the seam of her head always left raw. Soiling, holes (chest) and tears to lace trim. Faint lines of an ink...
Lovably eccentric. Stitched on linen: Dear Jennie, I have a new sewing machine. Grandad has blood poison, but he is getting better. I am sending you a doll. I made her clothes. It was...