Wilma Powlesland's Memo Pad With Marvelous Drawings by Genleve Baldyga, East Syracuse, NY glass pins Oil on hand-cut academy board

Oil on hand-cut academy board

two years and four months old

1920s-40s I believe) and which I found too earnestly hard-trying and full of life to resist

I believe that it is likely Japanese

8 1/2" l x 6" t x 4 3/4" d

Wilma Powlesland's Memo Pad With Marvelous Drawings by Genleve Baldyga, East Syracuse, NY glass pins Oil on hand-cut academy boardI paid a fair bit for this one, but I couldn't walk away and anything that delivers pure and total delight these days seems worth its weight in gold. Notes on the inside of the cover tell us it was a young Wilma Powlesland's memo pad, but the drawings were the work of Genleve Baldyga (and there's a self portrait included.) Photos give a good sense, most pages documented. And then a series of spelling lists at the end, with some good and evocative word