Blonde in Blue with Telephone, 1930s Naive Watercolor Drawing light and dark sweet but not sacharine

sweet but not sacharine

25ʺ in diameter and 4ʺ tall

surely telling the story of this woman's miraculous healing

9 1/8” x 6 3/4” and in very good

but find them quite beautiful

Blonde in Blue with Telephone, 1930s Naive Watercolor Drawing light and dark sweet but not sacharineWhat a face, and what a perfect head a'tilt, eyebrow raised expression as she holds her pale blue telephone with one red nailed hand over the receiver as if to ask, as she looks directly at us, 'how shall I respond to this one?' I take her for a hotel concierge or bellhop, c. 1940s, and it seems perhaps the watercolor was based on a still from a movie? Whether drawn from a film or not, it's got a distinct Hitchcock ian vibe to me, with that wallpaper