Sad Eyed St. Bernard, 1909 Naive Watercolor by Katie Eby, Age 14, Pennsylvania tabletop bowling pins just makes my heart ache

just makes my heart ache

so it's best to look at those

("Some think teachers have an easy time of it but my experience so far leads me to have a very different opinion

all the better when they deliver a portrait

their literal long shadow--with nods to the Garden too

Sad Eyed St. Bernard, 1909 Naive Watercolor by Katie Eby, Age 14, Pennsylvania tabletop bowling pins just makes my heart acheThis is one of three watercolors by a young Katie Eby I purchased in PA from a great paper dealer, 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. Quite an empathetic and very soulful looking St. Bernard here, I'd say how not to love? Labeled in cursive in graphite at the bottom (in case the barrel around his neck didn't give it away) and signed on