SOLD Black Pail, Bold and Very Satisfying c. 1930s School Marker on Paper Drawing athletics making for a truly stunning

making for a truly stunning silhouette

especially) and a gasoline can

sturdy and stable and with a good amount of age to it for sure

especially antique miniature watercolored ones--such beautiful

And the rendering of the figures on this one

SOLD Black Pail, Bold and Very Satisfying c. 1930s School Marker on Paper Drawing athletics making for a truly stunningThis for me is one of those old kid drawings that feels transcendent. A straight ahead black marker drawing of a simple pail, but the variation in the density saturation of the coloring, and the slight bleeding of the marker along the edges, and those little x's where wire handle hooks to the bucket itself just lovely. And, rendered in such an "iconic" sort of way, the simple pail takes on something of a larger than life significance, as a form object