Adventures of Ned, Fred and Ellis - Set of Four Humorous Ink Drawings sky weighted with chunks of wood

weighted with chunks of wood at either end

even more so when emitting a trail of smoke and accompanied by a two-toned green book of matches tipped in orange

This painting has an Arts and Craft feel to me

to lead him out of the ring

they lived in Sugarcreek Ohio) and that three years later he was still celebrating her birth--and/or maybe it just took him that long to get around to it

Adventures of Ned, Fred and Ellis - Set of Four Humorous Ink Drawings sky weighted with chunks of woodFour drawings total here, shown across the first and second photos the first the largest and the other three postcard sized. Together they portray adventures of Ned and Fred and Ellis: heading to the woods with a cart full of apple tree knots (which Ned alone seems to have chopped), burying a skunk, and chauffeuring a cow while a cat runs along beside them, and then a big question mark begging the question of what came next!? Seems perhaps the work of