Two Antique New York Folk Art Graphite Drawings by D. S. Barrett

19th century; the first inscribed and signed "Kaaters - Skills Painted by D. S. Barrett" at lower right, a charmingly naive landscape complete with bears and hunters on the frozen lake and an American Indian with bow in the woods; the second depicts a view of a Hudson River Valley village and numerous sailboats and a paddle wheeler plying the wide river, signed "By / DSB / (artist's cipher);" both matted and framed under glass.

Frame dimensions 22 1/2 x 26 in.

Collection of a Gentleman, Fearrington, North Carolina

Abrasions to each; light scattered foxing. Not examined out of the frames.