19th C. Double-Sided Naive Graphite & Crayon Drawing: Giant Baby Boy, Flowers strategy game board he or she packed a

he or she packed a lot into this bucolic scene

The two splits on the flat part of the palette were glued back together long ago

for the box alone

Kirk at lower right

where it might spiral perpetually

19th C. Double-Sided Naive Graphite & Crayon Drawing: Giant Baby Boy, Flowers strategy game board he or she packed aThis is one of a handful of drawings I'm listing by the same (surely quite young) maker, found together in an old notebook already partially disassembled so I went ahead and separated them all. I'd guess 1870s or so, and all quite wonderful, this otherworldly baby boy on blue blanket, seemingly a giant in relation to the tree beside him, perhaps my favorite of all. (And reminding me a bit of the phenomenal "electric pencil" drawings of James Edward