Large Watercolor Portrait of Intense Looking Man with Unfinished Hands yellow and black Brown: 10 1/2 x 5

Brown: 10 1/2 x 5 1/4

but all seem in generally good condition

but also the secular aspects of tea and Japanese life

but this one was--just great

deriving its specialness not from a volume of stacked layers but rather from the care taken with the individual bits

Large Watercolor Portrait of Intense Looking Man with Unfinished Hands yellow and black Brown: 10 1/2 x 5I found both this one, along with the crock painting I just listed, at one of my very favorite spots in New Hampshire a treasure trove of interesting and unusual things that reflect the eyes of a family of artists. I am not sure if they were done by the same person, but it wouldn't surprise me if they were. I love the intensity of the chiseled sort of face on this guy, his ginger hair set off by purple ground, and then what seems like a vast torso