Perfect Pear: 19th C. Theorem Watercolor on Paper \to hang or filled with a bloom

or filled with a bloom

but everything seems in excellent working order--a really terrific little kit inside a beautiful box

like the angel on one shoulder in a cartoon

and the legs appear to be cast brass

and a hole at the center of the back

Perfect Pear: 19th C. Theorem Watercolor on Paper \to hang or filled with a bloomThere are so many sorts of things I've fallen more and more in love with over time, theorem paintings very much one of them. I really love the super folky early theorems on velvet, but a crisp watercolor theorem on paper like this one satisfies in a whole different way; what a jewel like thing this ripening pear on its stem is, with a few rich green leaves setting it off just perfectly. So contemporary feeling, too; a perfectly resolved, very lovely