Lone Horseman Under Smoky Sky, Beautiful and Evocative Antique Tintype watercolor of violets In 1782 he built a

In 1782 he built a grist mill and four years later built the first paper mill in Vermont

which makes me happy every time I look at it

and would be glad to have piles and piles of them

Both inside and out

with a sort of  Joseph Beuys locked in a room for three days with a coyote kind of elementailsm to it

Lone Horseman Under Smoky Sky, Beautiful and Evocative Antique Tintype watercolor of violets In 1782 he built aOne of two tintypes today purchased from a favorite dealer in Cohoes, NY and total love at first sight with this one, which the dealer referred to as "The Lone Horseman." Indeed. And while most everything feels existential to me these days, certainly this portrait of a very solitary seeming, very young (Native?) man in his hat on his horse out in the land with smoky looking sky sure does. The smoky swirls of the sky appear to be a flaw of development,