William Palmer 1920s Art Deco Textile Design aluminum tray or really for making an

or really for making an occasion of lighting anything

which has remnants of its original red paint in a few spots

I can't see that their is any wood that has been lost

There is a second similar horse drawing (actually two drawings

This is a really lovely old hand-stitched leather (cowhide I believe) covered Waverly cigarette tin

William Palmer 1920s Art Deco Textile Design aluminum tray or really for making anThis is a gorgeous hand painted watercolor textile design, mounted to black rag paper, by William Palmer, c. late 1920s, likely done when he was in school. Very Art Deco, with a strong Cubist influence as well; I'd like to think the repeating fragment of a guitar is an homage to Picasso! Palmer (1906 1987) was born in Des Moines, studied at the Art Students League in NYC under Thomas Hart Benton among others, and studied fresco painting at the Ecole