Save the Food Gouache on Board Art Student Painting carved wooden spoon with curvy handle and hardly needs an incline

and hardly needs an incline to do so

And the two “hooks” are significantly heavier than the rest

The underside is signed AD

as they can certainly balance in all sorts of places

and there is just a tiny bit of wrinkling to the paper along the bottom edge at the center

Save the Food Gouache on Board Art Student Painting carved wooden spoon with curvy handle and hardly needs an inclineThis painting came from a portfolio of student work by a Rachel S. Roberts, c. 1918 I'd guess a class assignment from an advertising design class. Though done as a mock graphic for the U. S. Food Administration founded in 1917 to administer food reserves for the U. S. army and allies during World War I certainly the message remains relevant today, and I really love her rendering of those fish, especially! 9" x 12" gouache on board. Some stains and a