Antique Deer in Landscape Watercolor in Period Gilded Frame folk art desk which look like playing cards

which look like playing cards as we know them

Signed at bottom left and I believe that what appears to be a "3J" at bottom right likely refers to his Alt's class in school

which reminds me a bit of Pima Native American baskets

and certainly he's got enough personality to be the protagonist in a finger puppet drama

Antique Deer in Landscape Watercolor in Period Gilded Frame folk art desk which look like playing cardsReally a gem of a small watercolor I think, late 19th c. I would guess, with a lovely, keen looking deer standing at a stream enveloped by a dense, impressionistically painted landscape. The backside of the frame shows that it was framed by Foster Brothers on Boylston St, Boston, founded in 1893 by brothers Stephen Bartlett Foster and John Roy Foster, and renowned for making unique carved and gilded frames, especially in the Arts and Crafts style. The