A WATERCOLOR AND INK DECORATED DRAWING

ATTRIBUTED TO GEORGE GERHART (1791-1846), ROCKHILL TOWNSHIP, BUCKS COUNTY, PENNSYLVANIA, FIRST QUARTER 19TH CENTURY

Details

A WATERCOLOR AND INK DECORATED DRAWING
Attributed to George Gerhart (1791-1846), Rockhill Township, Bucks County, Pennsylvania, first quarter 19th century
Centering a perched owl with ochre head, red beak, eyes and horns, with red, black and yellow dappled body, black decorated wing perched on a branch issuing black, yellow and red leaves, the page embellished with yellow, black and red rosettes and a yellow and red leafy branch, the whole enclosed in a red squiggle border
6½in. high, 4½in. wide

Literature

Frederick Weiser, The Gift is Small, The Love is Great (York: York Graphic Services, Inc., 1994), fig. 109, p.113.

Exhibited

New York City, Museum of American Folk Art, "The Gift is Small, The Love is Great," 21 January-21 April 1995.

Lot Essay

The distinctively conceived and drawn flower bursts of this drawing directly relate it to three Vorschriften by Gerhart, one signed, one unsigned and one unfinished (see FLP 958, lot 259, and FLP 944). This drawing is included in the Bucks County Fraktur Survey.