1968 Folk Art Painting of Urn with Flowers on Masonite Board, Signed Harvard is that it an early

is that it an early stone carving by Tim De Christopher

filled with people and houses and animals and ships and all sorts of other little things

The name reflected a merger of two aspects of ceramic design--art and engineering--with projects including studio pottery pieces made by Lee

which appears to read Parker and Wood on front and perhaps a note about location on the back

This one certainly calls the drawings of Paul Klee to mind

1968 Folk Art Painting of Urn with Flowers on Masonite Board, Signed Harvard is that it an earlyThis painting is definitely a folk art piece, but between that sky and off kilter checkerboard floor and super bright bouquet it also has a bit of a Chicago Imagist feel about it to me, while also seeming to reference theorem paintings, with the urn especially almost looking like a cut stencil. All this adds up to what I think is quite a fabulous painting, with an impact quite beyond its smallish size, and which seems just the thing to get one through