Cottage with Many Flowers and Milk Maid, Charming Naive Painting on Paper echo The blue in which they

The blue in which they are printed is makes the whole thing feel all the more mystical

The production of these "trinket" baskets became a cottage industry in the 1860s and reached its height in the 1930s

Ken Bowman (1937-2014)

They definitely seem to have some age to them--I might guess 1920s or so but I'm not entirely sure

It is an early 20th century Inuit model of a qamutiik (or komatik) sled

Cottage with Many Flowers and Milk Maid, Charming Naive Painting on Paper echo The blue in which theyI extricated this charmer from an old frame and mat with hopes of finding it clean and dry, and indeed it is, tempera or watercolor on paper well mounted to a piece of thin cardstock cardboard. And what a lot of joy painting it clearly brought to RR Strang, who signed their name at lower right those exuberantly painted passages of densely packed flowers alone seem like a total celebration. I'm not entirely sure the gender of the older person standing