Oil on Glass Pansy Painting with Tiny Scissors! skeeball board The green is just radiant

The green is just radiant

There are a couple of old horizontal splits in the lid and on the bottom that were glued back together long ago

the arms raise his hat high

Navel" (1925) with cutouts in the page that reveal the white page behind it

Oil on Glass Pansy Painting with Tiny Scissors! skeeball board The green is just radiantIt's the little pair of scissors painted in the bottom right corner about to snip a leaf of of one stem that really sold me on this painting, which, somewhat surprisingly, was painted on the face of a plate of glass, making me think that whoever made it was perhaps just using whatever they had on hand. But scissors aside, I think it's a lovely little painting, delicately done, and with a subtle, somewhat muted palette that makes these pansies feel