Wonderful Wedding Present Pastel Bowl of Fruit by Great Aunt Mollie, c. 1919, At Age 81 night sky a well known Inuit artist

a well known Inuit artist (both for carvings and for prints) from Puvirnituq/Povungnituk in northern Nunavik

and even better: handwritten in pencil down the leg of one figure is Sharkey

and as was explicitly noted on a watercolor of an iris by a different maker that I listed last week

one of a kind piece

we are all doing a lot of sitting these days

Wonderful Wedding Present Pastel Bowl of Fruit by Great Aunt Mollie, c. 1919, At Age 81 night sky a well known Inuit artistThis is one of two artworks found in Nashville that were done by 80+ year old women, which in and of itself makes me happy, and even more happily they are both great things. The age of the makers also reminds one of the fact that things made by a person at one point in time carry that maker's whole history of reference points; in the case of this pastel, for example, the Aunt Mollie who drew it would have been born in 1838 (as indicated from the note