Antique Folk Art Pencil Sketches of Two Women picture frame with bird or a tool-maker

or a tool-maker

who competed from 1973 to 1987

It reminds one that prior to the popularity of picture postcards and personal cameras

with a satisfying tension between positive and negative space and between the larger and smaller black forms

Antique Folk Art Pencil Sketches of Two Women picture frame with bird or a tool-makerI purchased these and several other pencil drawings by the same unknown artist from a dealer in Maine, who I believe purchased them some years ago from a notable Pennsylvania collection of naive drawings. Their maker certainly had a way with faces, and with conveying character through specific details, and I'm listing these two together as I imagine them as grandmother and granddaughter, with the elder home in her nightgown as the younger heads out to