SOLD North Hollow from Colby Farm, Andover, NH, 1915, Charming Naive Watercolor Signed B. Pratt dog painting made as a coin bank

made as a coin bank

slightly open mouth

who seems to have held on to every bit of her school artwork from the years around 1914 and kept it all inside a handmade

both un-dyed one like these

yet with a great elegance and delicacy of surface treatment

SOLD North Hollow from Colby Farm, Andover, NH, 1915, Charming Naive Watercolor Signed B. Pratt dog painting made as a coin bankA very sweet little naive watercolor, signed and dated 1915, and with a note on the back identifying the location at "North Hollow" from Colby Farm, Andover NH. A quick search turns up a bunch about the Colby family and Colby farm, a successful family farm that included cornfields and grazing fields for their livestock, and a historic farmhouse (now restored and known as the Cyrus Colby Farmhouse) dating to 1826. I love the old stone wall in this