Excellent Double-sided Kid's Drawing #2 (Parachute) antique cartoon providing inspiration and fortitude

providing inspiration and fortitude

I believe these date to the first quarter of the 20th century

full speed ahead

and with all of those years evident across its surface

the blue and red punch bowls and stacks of orange mugs and plates

Excellent Double-sided Kid's Drawing #2 (Parachute) antique cartoon providing inspiration and fortitudeI have a very deep and special love for the drawings of boys of about 7 or 8, and specifically action scenes playing out directly on the page just about as direct a line into the imagination as exists, completely visceral and immediate. In a way I can't fully articulate, there feels something powerfully true and tender about the convergence of naivete and brutality in drawings like this and one can feel the catharsis of pent up energy and aggression