Strange 1929 Devilish Bird in Egg Watercolor flower design or perhaps the teacher

or perhaps the teacher

with the coasters measuring 4 3/4" in diameter

Signed on one side near the top of the tail features

There is a bit of tearing/roughness just to the surface of the cardstock-weight paper at her feet and on the neighboring heart

Strange 1929 Devilish Bird in Egg Watercolor flower design or perhaps the teacherA weird one for sure, but I'm pretty into this watercolor gouache, done by a Silova O. Kolin in 1929. I might guess it has something to do with the end of one decade and beginning of another, perhaps with this black devil bird meant to represent the hatching the year 1930 (not really a great year in the history of things), screaming as it does. Or maybe it is just an anthroporphism of the proverbial primal scream. In any event, I think the pointy