Charter Oak, Earlier 19th Century Folk Art Watercolor in Original Lemon Gold Frame with Provenance (Almon Babcock, Ravenna, Ohio) bared teeth perhaps the age of its

perhaps the age of its maker when she did it

and the thin ribs from being turned on a lathe subtly visible through the very soft red and yellow paint

but it's hard to beat the beehive as a form

who also looks to me very much like a nun

with the appliqued pieces I believe hand-dyed

Charter Oak, Earlier 19th Century Folk Art Watercolor in Original Lemon Gold Frame with Provenance (Almon Babcock, Ravenna, Ohio) bared teeth perhaps the age of itsLove at first sight for me with this tree and a perfect marriage of watercolor and frame plus provenance pinned to the back of it in the form of notes written on a Prudential envelope postmarked in 1971. The tree pictured is described on that envelope as "Charter Oak, Boston, MA" and the watercolor as having belonged to Almon Babcock of Ravenna, Ohio "who had one of the first taverns here in early 1800s Supposed to have been made by one of his