Two Houses with Gestural Trees, Henry Hinkel Crayon Drawing, 1913, Lancaster NY hand-coiled I know from the dealer

I know from the dealer I purchased it from lived in a storage space in PA for the past few decades

and are stable now

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and it would lose that descriptor altogether

Two Houses with Gestural Trees, Henry Hinkel Crayon Drawing, 1913, Lancaster NY hand-coiled I know from the dealerOne 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,