Mid-Century Gouache on Paper, Unsigned Abstraction in Period Frame antique schoolgirl map of what was most likely

of what was most likely a woman venturing out on a stroll along the seashore again and again to collect and then carefully preserve them

where this couple with backs turned to one another  seem as if they were destined for perching on either side of this table

and how her much elongated lower body (I'm not sure why but this clown seems female to me) makes her feel quite regal and commanding

There is one small rim chip

Mid-Century Gouache on Paper, Unsigned Abstraction in Period Frame antique schoolgirl map of what was most likelyThis was the first thing that caught my eye as I walked into a show in Bath, Maine last weekend, and it has caught my eye a hundred times since! Mid century I believe, gouache on what looks like watercolor paper, in a deep period frame, gold on the facing edge. Perhaps this was done in art class as a exercise in color and form, or perhaps the work of a well known practicing artist, maybe signed somewhere not visible. (I have not taken it out of the