Marvelous 19th C. Naive Watercolor and Graphite Drawing of Two Children and Noah's Arc (?) Hudson River school oil painting expressing the sense of forced

expressing the sense of forced constriction facing Indigenous Americans just a few years before the signing of the Dawes Act in 1887

Marked Made in Germany

which I believe likely dates to the 1830s or so

which I'd like to think were inspired by the work of Bridget Riley

Marvelous 19th C. Naive Watercolor and Graphite Drawing of Two Children and Noah's Arc (?) Hudson River school oil painting expressing the sense of forcedOh, just exactly my favorite sort of drawing, and how rare it seems, more and more so, to find ones like this done by a school child I believe, mid 19th c. or so I think, graphite and watercolor on lined paper, with an embossed stamp at the upper left edge of the paper. Look at his striped purple tights! And her polka dotted apron against mustard yellow sleeves. And those faces, and hands, and heads of hair, and the way sho looks as if she's