SOLD Black Pail, Bold and Very Satisfying c. 1930s School Marker on Paper Drawing swim costumes no splits or cracks

no splits or cracks

a delicate pair of legs emerging from bloomers

that then snaps tight back in place to hold them

too--large enough to hold all sorts of sewing supplies inside

and helper machinist

SOLD Black Pail, Bold and Very Satisfying c. 1930s School Marker on Paper Drawing swim costumes no splits or cracksThis 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