Good Book, Good Book, Very Sweet Antique Graphite Endpaper Drawing silver vessel Excellent painterly color

Excellent painterly color

which just feels all of a piece with it

a missing pin from the left shoulder of the clarinetist

though as the Buffalo-Pittsburg railroad runs between the two

in my opinion

Good Book, Good Book, Very Sweet Antique Graphite Endpaper Drawing silver vessel Excellent painterly colorGood book, good book. I'm completely smitten with this one, which I take as a self portrait of a thoughtful reader done many many years ago. Not sure what "good book" it was pulled from, but clearly was done on an end page removed at some point could well be the good book being referenced was The Bible, but she looks more like a reader of novels or poetry to me! Marvelous face, wonderful hair, and I just love the polka dots under her armpits! 5 7 8" x