I can never leave folios of school drawings like this behind--even as some of the exercises featured have become familiar to me from having handled a number of them, each remains very much its own special thing. This one was the work of a Don Pratt at Sheridan Junior High, 1938-39; I found it in Maine, but I only turn up references to a Sheridan Junior High in Sheridan, Wyoming, so maybe it had already travelled quite a ways to arrive in my hands. Photos document all pages--all easily extracted by removing the two brass clasps holding the folio together, with board covers and construction paper for the pages. (I didn't take it apart to photograph them, so sometimes didn't quite capture the far interior edge of the drawing.) A nice crayoned color wheel, some radiant watercolors and some Froebel-ian gridded paper designs among them--and I have to say I especially love that minimal, soft gray charcoal square.

12 1/2" x 9 7/8", 19 pages, drawings on front sides only, all in very good condition, with a small top right corner loss to the front cover.