James Bone "Profiles (Chimney Sweeps)" Colored Pencil Drawing, 2010 wooden sewing box typically commissioned by wealthy foreigners

typically commissioned by wealthy foreigners and engraved with their monograms

but am pretty certain it is African

The primary glaze is a rich mustard-y yellow-brown

each only fits well where it is)

and I think perhaps a Hare for the H

James Bone "Profiles (Chimney Sweeps)" Colored Pencil Drawing, 2010 wooden sewing box typically commissioned by wealthy foreignersJames Frederic Bone (1929 2015) a prolific and endlessly inventive Chicago artist, did a series of drawings very late in life of floating forms composed double profiles. While others are more abstract, this one seems to portray specific individuals, parenthetically described as chimney sweeps with the hand written quote on the back of the paper making one wonder whether the drawing portrays friends or lovers lost. "Fear no more the heat of the sun