Some site said he was very prolific, painting more than 11000 pictures. Over a 40 year career, that would be 275 paintings per year. Taking time...
Have to agree - not a Krieghoff. It's been a long time since I read about him, but I don't think of him as a watercolorist. He did have training...
What is it painted on? The texture looks like canvas. I don't think canvas is a surface conducive to water based paints.
I like those glazes. Very ethereal.
If you put stuff online, it's online. All it takes is someone to download your pictures, and it's all over the place. And it's almost impossible...
I think it's a beautiful thing. It would be a real eye-opener hanging on someone's wall. How big is it?
I know there were book illustrators doing work of that ilk in Edwardian times.
Very interesting. Maybe you could donate this to your local library.
These does look like bubbles in the mix: [IMG] But inclusions like these would be hard to control: [IMG] And the evident scratches may indicate...
I agree that a nice close-up of the decoration might help. The pictures are too yellow on my monitor to even make a guess at the stone. From the...
If they're suggesting very fine steel wool, maybe you could try one of those magic erasers first. (I don't know what's used to make them and I've...
But you just as probably know his work. http://allmyeyes.blogspot.ca/2013/06/roth-wrapped-in-bacon.html
A firing crack. You can say it's stable and happened in the kiln, but better to say firing flaw. Once "crack" enters the description, all hope...
A Texas Tiki?
Books like that are terrific. They have such a sense of period to them.
If you've ever walked in a driving rain under an umbrella and felt that fine mist coming through the fabric, then you know what it feels like to...
Yes, I found this site that says introduced into the U.S. in the 1930s: http://www.gastoncountymuseum.org/objectotw3.18.12.asp
Totes claims to have introduced the folding umbrella in 1970.
The first telescoping umbrella was introduced about 1970, so it's no older than that.
I suspect the irregularity was intentional, but more than that I can't say.
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