Pink Roses Antique Watercolor #3 wooden ball in cage educator and theorist Gyorgy Kepes

educator and theorist Gyorgy Kepes (founder of MIT's Center for Advanced Visual Studies) is this terrific book

and the two forever joined by their cut tin arms

this is the first I've come across like this

While I usually gravitate toward older carvings

Smaller measures 6 3/4" long x 2 3/8" widest x 7/8" deep

Pink Roses Antique Watercolor #3 wooden ball in cage educator and theorist Gyorgy KepesThis is one of three watercolors of roses I purchased together, I believe all found together too, perhaps done at the same time by three different members of a family, or maybe more likely schoolmates. I like them individually in different ways, but also together, variations on a theme becoming in a sense portraits of their makers. This one, the most "primitive" of the three I'd say, with shield at upper left, is signed (maybe with the named of a