Sad Eyed St. Bernard, 1909 Naive Watercolor by Katie Eby, Age 14, Pennsylvania tabletop bowling pins their literal long shadow--with nods

their literal long shadow--with nods to the Garden too

("Some think teachers have an easy time of it but my experience so far leads me to have a very different opinion

with pale pink blushes to their fabulously odd and a bit worried looking faces

just adding a little to its nice sense of object hood

I really don't know anything about this antique doll

Sad Eyed St. Bernard, 1909 Naive Watercolor by Katie Eby, Age 14, Pennsylvania tabletop bowling pins their literal long shadow--with nodsThis is one of three watercolors by a young Katie Eby I purchased in PA from a great paper dealer, who I believe told me as I was purchasing them that they came from the estate of the important American folk art collector and gallerist John Gordon. Quite an empathetic and very soulful looking St. Bernard here, I'd say how not to love? Labeled in cursive in graphite at the bottom (in case the barrel around his neck didn't give it away) and signed on