SOLD North Hollow from Colby Farm, Andover, NH, 1915, Charming Naive Watercolor Signed B. Pratt dog painting with a bit of stuffing

with a bit of stuffing covered in red fabric in between

The piece is by Vassilios Giavis (b

slightly open mouth

made as a coin bank

SOLD North Hollow from Colby Farm, Andover, NH, 1915, Charming Naive Watercolor Signed B. Pratt dog painting with a bit of stuffingA very sweet little naive watercolor, signed and dated 1915, and with a note on the back identifying the location at "North Hollow" from Colby Farm, Andover NH. A quick search turns up a bunch about the Colby family and Colby farm, a successful family farm that included cornfields and grazing fields for their livestock, and a historic farmhouse (now restored and known as the Cyrus Colby Farmhouse) dating to 1826. I love the old stone wall in this