SOLD Black Pail, Bold and Very Satisfying c. 1930s School Marker on Paper Drawing swim costumes a delicate pair of legs

a delicate pair of legs emerging from bloomers

with a little gap and wiggle--no threat of coming apart

painted on bone in brass frame

no splits or cracks

Better in hand

SOLD Black Pail, Bold and Very Satisfying c. 1930s School Marker on Paper Drawing swim costumes a delicate pair of legsThis for me is one of those old kid drawings that feels transcendent. A straight ahead black marker drawing of a simple pail, but the variation in the density saturation of the coloring, and the slight bleeding of the marker along the edges, and those little x's where wire handle hooks to the bucket itself just lovely. And, rendered in such an "iconic" sort of way, the simple pail takes on something of a larger than life significance, as a form object