Man in Carriage, Horse with Hidden Head, Fantastic Tree and Fantasy Architecture, Nancy Linton's c. 1880s Ink Drawing topsy turvy drawings typically zig-zag pattern

typically zig-zag pattern

was really earnest about and committed to them

Quite beautifully and concisely constructed

Memorial To A Marriage (2002) portraying the artist and her artist wife Deborah Kass recumbent in an entwined embrace on a bed

I find it all immensely satisfying and have not tired of playing with it yet (and have spent a fair amount time turning that crank

Man in Carriage, Horse with Hidden Head, Fantastic Tree and Fantasy Architecture, Nancy Linton's c. 1880s Ink Drawing topsy turvy drawings typically zig-zag patternSuch a delight! I know from the New England dealer I purchased this from that the Nancy Linton who signed it (quite proudly!) was Nancy Isabel Linton, born 1868 in Charlotte, New Brunswick, in and around where she lived her whole life. (d. 1935). I would guess she drew this during her school years, early mid 1880s, and love everything about it our Nancy was not afraid of bold gestures, and I imagine her as a young woman with a mind very much her own!