Edward Wigglesworth, President of Harvard University, Cabinet Card Photo of Portrait Painting brown paper envelop and then through minimal gestures

and then through minimal gestures giving shape to it as a bird

with tiny tears to the top right and bottom left corners

I'd guess a school girl creation dating to the early 20th century or so

This landscape is very much in keeping with his work--from the Smithsonian website: "Palmer was a painter of the American Scene who portrayed the rolling plains and expansive skies of his native Iowa during the 1930s and 1940s

Edward Wigglesworth, President of Harvard University, Cabinet Card Photo of Portrait Painting brown paper envelop and then through minimal gesturesFinding this one at a photo show in Newton, MA this week felt quite timely given Harvard being so much in the news of late this a cabinet card photograph of a painting of one time Harvard President Edward Wigglesworth, who I'll take as an icon for academic freedom now! (And I've actually learned that Yale was founded in counter to the perceived liberalism of the Harvard Divinity School under the leadership of Wigglesworth's father, Edward Michael, the