Two Houses with Gestural Trees, Henry Hinkel Crayon Drawing, 1913, Lancaster NY antique masonic embroidery and the there are eye

and the there are eye holes and two holes at the sides by which one could thread ribbon in order to wear it

with light general wear and a bit of staining to the silk

attaching it to the cotton batting underneath

I've learned that dogfish are thought to have the longest gestation period of any vertebrate (up to 24 months) and practice a form of live birth called yolk sac viviparity--basically

what a charmer he is

Two Houses with Gestural Trees, Henry Hinkel Crayon Drawing, 1913, Lancaster NY antique masonic embroidery and the there are eyeOne of a handful today pulled from the already falling apart sketchbook of a young Henry Henkel of Lancaster, NY, who wrote his name many times all over it including all over the back side of this drawing. I always love a naive house drawing, but here especially for the trees paired with each of houses, as if expressive of each of their natures, with the tree dramatically draping over the side of the yellow house seeming as if clinging to it really,