Girl with Golden Necklace and Half Hidden Mother, Antique Hand-painted Tintype 1917 carving I really really love the

I really really love the positioning and interplay of their hands

but also for its lineage among what one imagines are many thousands of similar photos taken at this tree over many many years

I really love the production of this 1945 first edition of Drawing Trees

and I think perhaps also down the back vertically

Girl with Golden Necklace and Half Hidden Mother, Antique Hand-painted Tintype 1917 carving I really really love theA girl after my own heart looking full of attitude and with a mind very much of her own. Her hand painted golden necklace makes her feel even more like a princess, with pale blue ribbons and sash to boot. Alone, I would love her, but it is the inclusion of half her mother in the frame that makes this just right to my eye formally compositionally, but also in terms of the dynamic her presence introduces, as if this child were midway through the process