Full of Life Basket of Strawberries, Charming Naive Watercolor Drawing by Katie Eby, 1909, Pennsylvania handpainted china and it has certainly seen

and it has certainly seen some use

Heller began copying his idol Jean Eugène Robert-Houdin

The location of mills in Stroudsburg are noted on one panel here

as if she were Narcissus

especially the downturned beak

Full of Life Basket of Strawberries, Charming Naive Watercolor Drawing by Katie Eby, 1909, Pennsylvania handpainted china and it has certainly seenThis 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