Bucciali Tav, from J.T. Garvin's "Wildfire" Portfolio, 1969-70 Stavaridis Gallery Boston I've gotten pretty picky about

I've gotten pretty picky about the folk art doorstops I bring home

which is much of what makes it so lovely

This little notebook is a delicate one--small

and for me makes this about the most tender and heartfelt whimsy that I've seen

Bucciali Tav, from J.T. Garvin's "Wildfire" Portfolio, 1969-70 Stavaridis Gallery Boston I've gotten pretty picky aboutThis drawing came from a larger portfolio of some 50 drawings, all of cars, most initialed and dated 1969 or 70 on reverse, which with some piecing together I've figured out were done by a Jerry Thayer Garvin of Nottingham, NH all as the imagined holdings of a fictional "Wildfire Corporation" founded in 1898. Found in the portfolio was an elaborate set of notes detailing the makers and models of the cars held in this fictional Wildfire Collection,