Randolph Madlem's Hopping Rabbits Handwritten Text Plus Turkey Drawing square studio pottery bowl lending the painting a bit

lending the painting a bit of extra aura and moodiness

I'd guess this wonderful old sign was hung inside or outside a general store or similar advertising calico fabrics

it is hard and smooth

Along the right edge are a couple of comments

how to resist

Randolph Madlem's Hopping Rabbits Handwritten Text Plus Turkey Drawing square studio pottery bowl lending the painting a bitLove love love love love. The turkey drawing in crayon on one side of this paper is great, but it's Randolph Madlem's transcription of a story about hopping grass eating rabbits that breaks my heart! Somewhere midway through he gets the spelling of rabbits right, though he veers back again to adding an "e" on the end. What I love most (in addition to the way he so carefully forms his "a"s and "g"'s) is the way his writing slopes down to the right as