Stripes Obscuring Letters, Antique Cutout Watercolor Zebra on Penmanship Practice Scrap snowy day Pretty great anywhere

Pretty great anywhere

One sees a relationship with the work of Motherwell

whose childhood ambition was to become a horse jockey

) Surely inspiration and/or material for all sorts of creative endeavors

and I think that it likely

Stripes Obscuring Letters, Antique Cutout Watercolor Zebra on Penmanship Practice Scrap snowy day Pretty great anywhereI've had some other old animals cut from scrap paper of this sort, but none so large or with watercolored stripes! Quite a charmer of a zebra I think, who also looks a lot like a donkey, and with penmanship practice repeated letters showing through the stripes and also covering the reverse side. 9" l x 7 1 2" t. Watercolor on card weight paper. Very good condition, c. 1900 I believe, found in Pennsylvania.