C. 1940s-50s Oil on Canvas Painting of Young Woman in Yellow Mending deck of cards with two tiny blue glass

with two tiny blue glass beads for eyes

I love her

and learned that they were a bit of a thing during the Victorian era--some plain like this one

the likes of which I cannot find out there anywhere

C. 1940s-50s Oil on Canvas Painting of Young Woman in Yellow Mending deck of cards with two tiny blue glassNot really my usual style, but when I came across this painting in Maine yesterday it would not let me go. To me, it has a bit of a WPA feeling about it, and this lovely, rosy cheeked young woman seems to me quietly heroic, looking as if perhaps a few months pregnant and mending (I assume) what looks more like a sheet or blanket than a shirt, and so feels somehow more hopeful and future oriented than a mundane daily chore. (And or perhaps the wear to