Helen Malta Pencil Sketch of Woman Feeding Birds, 1930s accordion fold box 9 1/4" x 6 1/4"

9 1/4" x 6 1/4" x 1 7/8"

organizing office supplies on a desk

with a little dryness to the surface of the wood

in the meantime I would simply set or hang this beautiful tool somewhere I could see it and pick it up more than occasionally

Helen Malta Pencil Sketch of Woman Feeding Birds, 1930s accordion fold box 9 1/4" x 6 1/4"This drawing takes me straight to a park in New York, sitting on a bench and watching this woman who has surely made a daily habit of coming to feed these birds. While notes on the drawing ("red and blue dots" written on the woman's shoulder, and "brilliant blue and green birds" at bottom right) suggest that this was a quick sketch in advance of a more finished drawings, I think the looseness and lack of color, combined with the way her hair falls