Edward Wigglesworth, President of Harvard University, Cabinet Card Photo of Portrait Painting brown paper envelop Carved of wood with polychrome

Carved of wood with polychrome in light brown with chocolate brown patches

and then through minimal gestures giving shape to it as a bird

And I think the decoration on the lid of this one

I'm completely smitten with them

I'd guess a school girl creation dating to the early 20th century or so

Edward Wigglesworth, President of Harvard University, Cabinet Card Photo of Portrait Painting brown paper envelop Carved of wood with polychromeFinding this one at a photo show in Newton, MA this week felt quite timely given Harvard being so much in the news of late this a cabinet card photograph of a painting of one time Harvard President Edward Wigglesworth, who I'll take as an icon for academic freedom now! (And I've actually learned that Yale was founded in counter to the perceived liberalism of the Harvard Divinity School under the leadership of Wigglesworth's father, Edward Michael, the