Woman with Three Arms, Antique Watercolor Drawing with Die Cut Frog folk art pelican in big stylized letters

in big stylized letters

looking like three fingers of a hand with beautifully awkward raised arms or wings at either side

and to my eye really the perfect stool to use as a pedestal for a few favorite objects

I’ve only turned up only one reference to any Clair Bolic at all—born in Caldwell

and the more I look at it

Woman with Three Arms, Antique Watercolor Drawing with Die Cut Frog folk art pelican in big stylized lettersThis is one of several watercolor drawings which I find completely marvelous and clearly product of a most lively and inventive mind and hand, and which I'll be more than happy to keep for myself that I know were salvaged from a scrapbook sketchbook that lived from many years in the possession of a collector (of the hoarder disposition), whose huge, amazing collection was badly damaged in a flood. Such a heartbreaking thing, as the few drawings