Helen Malta, Women and Potted Plants, Color Pencil Drawing, 1930s antique Indian with a wonderful decorative

with a wonderful decorative

While there is a fair amount of toleware (painted tin

I especially love "Yum / Yum" for the kissing couple

and the soft

2 7/8" tall

Helen Malta, Women and Potted Plants, Color Pencil Drawing, 1930s antique Indian with a wonderful decorativeThis is one of several just in drawings by Helen Wagner Malta (1912 1975), which I am completely taken with gentle and sweet without being saccharine, delicate but decisive, and always subtly surprising. This is the most exuberantly colorful of the lot, and what a fantastic use of line I find the combination of those waves of blue and green hair with those striped dresses just wonderful, and zoom in especially for the profiles of the two figures in