Two Houses with Gestural Trees, Henry Hinkel Crayon Drawing, 1913, Lancaster NY hand-coiled or ice cream

or ice cream

ready to swat at the tiny balls that hover above these tiny nets

and it would lose that descriptor altogether

especially the underside of the flip top lid (which I believe lost its pull)

I purchased this piece online and wasn't entirely sure of it

Two Houses with Gestural Trees, Henry Hinkel Crayon Drawing, 1913, Lancaster NY hand-coiled or ice creamOne of a handful today pulled from the already falling apart sketchbook of a young Henry Henkel of Lancaster, NY, who wrote his name many times all over it including all over the back side of this drawing. I always love a naive house drawing, but here especially for the trees paired with each of houses, as if expressive of each of their natures, with the tree dramatically draping over the side of the yellow house seeming as if clinging to it really,