Thomas Jefferson (I Presume) in Red Coat, Naive Ink and Watercolor in Antique Frame corn and beans separating her from the realm

separating her from the realm of the painting in the background

and just love looking at them all together in all of their variation

A bit of research reveals that the history of the Bowie knife is quite an elusive and contested one

as I've had a few sets of those they remind me very much of

Thomas Jefferson (I Presume) in Red Coat, Naive Ink and Watercolor in Antique Frame corn and beans separating her from the realmI take this as a portrait of Thomas Jefferson, who loved a red coat; I don't know for sure, but at a moment when it feels like sight of the founding vision for the United States should not be lost, I'll call him so. Here looking especially quiet and contemplative, with what I take for wall paper pattern surrounding him, and, aside from his rich red coat and gray hair, looking almost as if about to fade into the ether. Under glass in a nice old wooden