"Heart and Hand Artist" (Maine, Vermont, and New Hampshire, active 1830-1855),Illuminated Birth Announcement.

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"Heart and Hand Artist" (Maine, Vermont, and New Hampshire, active 1830-1855),

Illuminated Birth Announcement. Unsigned. Watercolor and ink on paper birth announcement reading "Ellen S. Joy. Born Feb. 25th 1849", 3 3/8 x 4 3/8 in., in a period molded walnut frame.



Literature: Works executed by the same artist with heart and hand motifs are illustrated in By Good Hands: New Hampshire Folk Art, cooperative exhibition catalogue with The Currier Gallery of Art, University Art Galleries, University of New Hampshire, Durham, New Hampshire, 1989, p. 38; also in Folk Hearts: A Celebration of the Heart Motif in American Folk Art, by Schaffner, Cynthia V. A. and Klein, Susan, Alfred A. Knopf, New York, 1984, on p. 55.

Provenance: Don Walters.
Estimate $1,200-1,500

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