Helen Malta, Pink Mermaid, Color Pencil Drawing, 1930s perched bird All pretty minor

All pretty minor

straight down like a pendulum

it is two-sided

These are being sold individually

with just a hint of purple

Helen Malta, Pink Mermaid, Color Pencil Drawing, 1930s perched bird All pretty minorI keep thinking this mermaid drawing would make a pretty great tattoo! It comes from sketchbook of drawings by Helen Malta, done in the 1930s or so, while she teaching at the Harlem Art Center and working at the New York branch of the WPA graphics division. Surely it is based on an old carving, maybe a figurehead from a ship, and perhaps sketched on site while visiting a New York museum. Malta's work, which also included paintings and prints, is found