Antique Frontier Scene (?) Watercolor in Period Gilded Frame mcm puzzle and which I think may

and which I think may just be a few stray fibers

leaving the woman and her charming

the other blue

very stable and not fragile and I think quite an interesting

Antique Frontier Scene (?) Watercolor in Period Gilded Frame mcm puzzle and which I think mayI'm not entirely certain what is going on in this evocative little watercolor, but I really really love it, with its big dark sky enveloping what looks like a western frontier structure to me, and cowboy looking figures standing next to what I assume is a fire. Considered together with the deer watercolor surely by the same artist, which I just listed, my guess might be that these were done as first hand sketches out west, late 19th century or so,