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Did You Ever Try to Look at Watercolors on the Ceiling? Well, its just terrible.
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Did You Ever Try to Look at Watercolors on the Ceiling? Well, its just terrible.
Did You Ever Try to Look at Watercolors on the Ceiling? Well, its just terrible.
Orson Lowell
(American, 1871 - 1956)

Did You Ever Try to Look at Watercolors on the Ceiling? Well, its just terrible.

Pen and ink on paper
1900-1930
13 5/8 × 13 5/8 in. (34.6 × 34.6 cm)
82.16.161
Gift of Jane Collette Wilcox, 1982
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He Admitted He Got an Entirely New Slant on My Stuff
He Admitted He Got an Entirely New Slant on My Stuff
Orson Lowell
1900-1930
Getting the Low-Down on the Benson Ducks and the Morgan Dennis puppies
Getting the Low-Down on the Benson Ducks and the Morgan Dennis puppies
Orson Lowell
1900-1930
Swinging in the Draft
Swinging in the Draft
Orson Lowell
1900-1930
Negoya of the Engineers
Negoya of the Engineers
Orson Lowell
1902
"Just out," says Sir Henry. "In fact, we don't keep it. Try a lemon soda. The Mexican pointed his finger at him. "If you have no whiskey," says he, "go out and get some."
"Just out," says Sir Henry. "In fact, we don't keep it. Try a lemon soda. The Mexican pointed his finger at him. "If you have no whiskey," says he, "go out and get some."
N.C. Wyeth
1912
Joseph T. Fraser, Alfred G. B. Steel of the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Kirk Merrick, Thorton Oakley of the Philadelphia Watercolor Club
Joseph T. Fraser, Alfred G. B. Steel of the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Kirk Merrick, Thorton Oakley of the Philadelphia Watercolor Club
Alfred Bendiner
n.d.
The busy world itself might well hush its noisy activities long enough to hear of it.
The busy world itself might well hush its noisy activities long enough to hear of it.
N.C. Wyeth
1908
St. Valentine's Day in the Morning
St. Valentine's Day in the Morning
Howard Pyle
ca. 1881
She Tugged at the Snare Which Cruelly Held Her Baby
She Tugged at the Snare Which Cruelly Held Her Baby
Dorothy P. Lathrop
1939
Monkey in the Garden of Eden
Monkey in the Garden of Eden
Herbert Merrill Wilder
1909
The Hunter Himself Was Stretched on the Earth, before a Head-Stone of White Marble, Pushing Aside with His Fingers the Long Grass
The Hunter Himself Was Stretched on the Earth, before a Head-Stone of White Marble, Pushing Aside with His Fingers the Long Grass
Felix Octavius Carr Darley
ca. 1859
Mr. Rankeillor, the Lawyer Here he sate down, and bade me be seated
Mr. Rankeillor, the Lawyer
Here he sate down, and bade me be seated
N.C. Wyeth
1913

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