Ice House at Coes Pond, Perfectly Naive 1889 Watercolor Drawing stick pins S 87 William T

S 87 William T

I believe this little frog dates to the late 19th century

but with an excellent house and tree in among them too

The lip of the head doesn't quite fit the neck of the body

Ice House at Coes Pond, Perfectly Naive 1889 Watercolor Drawing stick pins S 87 William TThe richness of the palette really makes this old drawing painting for me the ochres of the road, rendered with painterly dashes, and the whole spectrum of reds and brows and greens. Quite lovely, and feels very warm toward this place described as the Ice House at Coes Pond along the bottom, which a little research tells me places it near Worcester, MA. In those days 1889 here ice was harvested from ponds in the winter, a labor performed by dozens of