Ye Olde Tree from Gram Kimball’s Travel Trunk
2016 • 60” × 48” × 4” • Prismacolor pencil, pastels, ink on original decorative paper mounted on wood and cardboard drawer panels (ca. 1900)
“I inherited a big old metal-covered travel trunk from my mom. In the top was a drawer, filled with some of her mother’s treasures. Lifting it out, I realized all the joints and connections had disintegrated and it was falling apart. After removing the great old stuff to safety, I took the drawer apart, laid the various pieces on the floor, and this tree trunk appeared—I just had to add some color.” –Philip Carey