Cow Behind the Log Pile with Basket and Squirrel, Clever Old Naive Graphite Drawing stoneware canister a missing button on his

a missing button on his coat

When I first saw him I immediately associated the black painted plaque he is mounted to as looking like a crescent moon

5 1/8 x 7 1/6 framed

certainly evoking a veteran's experience

" Such that one could tuck a few spools of thread and whatever else inside the pouch and have the pin cushion there too

Cow Behind the Log Pile with Basket and Squirrel, Clever Old Naive Graphite Drawing stoneware canister a missing button on hisJust a clever little drawing, which makes me smile, including for the tiny squirrel hovering in the bottom left corner. I really love the way those piled logs were drawn too, contained between the stumps of the trees which, one presumes, yielded them. 4 3 4" x 4". Graphite on lined school paper, very good condition, earlyish 20th century.