Dappled Apple, Antique Theorem Watercolor on Watermarked Paper finely made wooden clothes pin A beauty of an old

A beauty of an old carved wooden toy pistol

They were a folk toy made in Czechoslovakia during the 1930s

one of them flecked with a bit of brown

and were/are often made by artists specialized in making them

Dappled Apple, Antique Theorem Watercolor on Watermarked Paper finely made wooden clothes pin A beauty of an oldOne of three lush, strongly graphic old theorem watercolor paintings of fruit today, purchased together in Pennsylvania and making me think about the kinship between theorems (made using stencils, and with glass straws used for blowing the base level of watercolor paint) and airbrushed designs. Surely all done by one person, and a faint penciled number at the corner of each suggests they were likely part of a larger series (one sees similar numbering