Charmingly Naive Pin Up Style Pastel Nude on Black Ground colorful boxes and perfect for framing

and perfect for framing

Among my very favorite Pennsylvania finds

Mid-century I believe

who seems to have held on to every bit of her school artwork from the years around 1914 and kept it all inside a handmade

I purchased this piece at the estate sale of gallerist Cynthia Numark Prelack

Charmingly Naive Pin Up Style Pastel Nude on Black Ground colorful boxes and perfect for framingToo fun to resist, and looks to me like a very earnest, hard trying effort to render a sexy, pin up style nude, maybe based on a dirty playing card! Rendered in pastels or cray pas I believe, with the black ground entirely drawn in (in black pastel charcoal) a lot of effort! I have to think she delivered a lot of pleasure! 12" x 8 7 8". C. mid 20th century I believe, very good condition.