Upside Down Golden Apple! Antique Theorem Watercolor on Watermarked Paper spirit photo Poirer's work often included riddles

Poirer's work often included riddles and rebuses

) I love the look of those labels

as are the seams

10 3/4" l x 1 7/8" across at widest

Upside Down Golden Apple! Antique Theorem Watercolor on Watermarked Paper spirit photo Poirer's work often included riddlesOne 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