Tall, Thin, One-armed Woman in White marble dust painting This drawing (along with several

This drawing (along with several others I've had int he shop) came from a sketchbook of drawings by Helen Malta from the 1930s or so

It stands up on its flat bottom

This is a log splitting cone

these became an American  folk art genre around 1870

Tall, Thin, One-armed Woman in White marble dust painting This drawing (along with severalI found this lady yesterday in New Hampshire and grow more enamored of her every minute! On one hand she looks in her long white gown with what one might read as a split up the front as if about to go to the Oscars (and looks a bit like an Oscar herself!) but perhaps in fact she's lost her clothes and we're seeing her bare. (She also feels to me a bit like a nurse!) Whatever the case, wonderful face, wonderful form. great old white paint and a lost