Full of Life Basket of Strawberries, Charming Naive Watercolor Drawing by Katie Eby, 1909, Pennsylvania handpainted china Heller began copying his idol

Heller began copying his idol Jean Eugène Robert-Houdin

Found digging through a bin of papers at a shop in Nashville

I've been called a dealer of broken things on more than a few occasions

with the engraved numerals filled with a white inlay material so to be flush with the surface of the cube

as if she were Narcissus

Full of Life Basket of Strawberries, Charming Naive Watercolor Drawing by Katie Eby, 1909, Pennsylvania handpainted china Heller began copying his idolThis is one of three watercolors by a young Katie Eby I purchased in PA from a great paper dealer (one sold last week and another listed today) who I believe told me as I was purchasing them that they came from the estate of the important American folk art collector and gallerist John Gordon. Nice to know and really, what discerning eye would not fall in love with this very full of life basket strawberries?! Signed proudly at the bottom. Another