Mid-Century Pastel Brazilian Landscape by Tatiana McKinney - 1 of 2 antique fishing float I found this wonderful box

I found this wonderful box at an estate sale in MA in a modest house packed to the gills with a long lifetime's accumulation

The snowy ground

adding up to really lovely and unusual set

and some small stains to the wood

at least references that of a Japanese Mizushashi or cold water container

Mid-Century Pastel Brazilian Landscape by Tatiana McKinney - 1 of 2 antique fishing float I found this wonderful boxThis is one of a pair of large c. 1950s pastel drawings by Tatiana McKinney (1909 2008) I have in the shop and they are both truly luminous. In a lush palette of soft greens, blues, grays and black, both render mountainous Brazilian landscapes in a manner that feels extremely confident and entirely resolved these really have gravitas, and would command any space in which they are hung. Really, really nice. McKinney grew up in Russia, where she studied