SOLD North Hollow from Colby Farm, Andover, NH, 1915, Charming Naive Watercolor Signed B. Pratt dog painting yet with a great elegance

yet with a great elegance and delicacy of surface treatment

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

made as a coin bank

slightly open mouth

The piece is by Vassilios Giavis (b

SOLD North Hollow from Colby Farm, Andover, NH, 1915, Charming Naive Watercolor Signed B. Pratt dog painting yet with a great eleganceA 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