Joseph and Alfred Managhan, Drowned Brothers, Amesbury MA, 1909 antique carving folk art figure but the one that most

but the one that most rewards close looking

these feel not too difficult to master and great fun to spread out on the table

not detracting

but certainly not a new one

which in many ways feels quite contemporary

Joseph and Alfred Managhan, Drowned Brothers, Amesbury MA, 1909 antique carving folk art figure but the one that mostI know post mortem photos are not everyone's cup of tea, and not always mine, either, though I view them much more as tender and reverent than macabre. This one, pulled from the collection of an artist near me, I find both haunting and heartbreaking with a typed label on reverse identifying the two young men as brothers, drowned in Lake Gardner, Amesbury MA, in 1909. The framing of photograph, with the brothers lying side by side, wall papered wall