Minny Magdalene Brady Was Born In the Year of Our Lord, 1893 primitive kitchen tools and romantic

and romantic

and quite evocative I think

near the lamp base

The neck of the figure in black

It's a quintessential example of the work of Weston (1922-2015) and Brenda Andersen

Minny Magdalene Brady Was Born In the Year of Our Lord, 1893 primitive kitchen tools and romanticThis one makes me happy on a whole bunch of levels, not the least of which is simply the name Minny Magdalene! Very faintly at top center, framed on all sides by these exuberant decorative flourishes, is written the name Wm. Brady followed by the year 1896, telling us that it was her father that drew this (which I've confirmed through research; they lived in Sugarcreek Ohio) and that three years later he was still celebrating her birth and or maybe it