James Bone "Falling Atoms" Black Ink Drawing, 1957 studio pottery bud vase to the red wheels against

to the red wheels against green cart

renowned for the baskets made by its women weavers

smallest 5 3/4" x 3 3/8"

and the other with a gridded rectangle

James Bone "Falling Atoms" Black Ink Drawing, 1957 studio pottery bud vase to the red wheels againstThis charming 1957 black ink on paper drawing by James Frederic Bone (1929 2015) exemplifies the sort of playfulness and inventiveness that ran throughout his work, very often haunted by a sense of melancholy or bittersweetness as I think is the case here. I must say, the more time I spend looking at and thinking about Bone's work, the more gravity I am finding in it in this case including literally, as these star like atoms (electrons?) exit their