Don Pratt's Art Folio, Sheridan Junior High, 1938-39 wood handle Very heart warming

Very heart warming

I love these three men engaged with one another in a sort of naturally occurring conversation pit enveloped by a landscape in greens and browns and pinks--seems almost like a therapy session set in nature

which picture a handful but not all pages

I think this is a great example of a folk art painted mushroom conk

Don Pratt's Art Folio, Sheridan Junior High, 1938-39 wood handle Very heart warmingI can never leave folios of school drawings like this behind even as some of the exercises featured have become familiar to me from having handled a number of them, each remains very much its own special thing. This one was the work of a Don Pratt at Sheridan Junior High, 1938 39; I found it in Maine, but I only turn up references to a Sheridan Junior High in Sheridan, Wyoming, so maybe it had already travelled quite a ways to arrive in my hands.