Wailing Diva, c. 1920s-30s Naive Graphite and Color Pencil Drawing on 19th c. Ledger Paper carved painted penguin making her feel open and

making her feel  open and as if about to whisper some wisdom across time

and with the architecture of the greenhouse lending a wonderful play of the geometries to it all

1940s or so)

8" x 4 1/2" x 4 1/2" measured on the square

Wailing Diva, c. 1920s-30s Naive Graphite and Color Pencil Drawing on 19th c. Ledger Paper carved painted penguin making her feel open andThis is one of five drawings on ledger paper I am listing, all found together, with some 19th c. writing on some of the pages, but the drawings done a few decades later, I'm guessing 1920s or 30s, when a kid, or a couple of them, got a hold of the ledger. I love this solitary wailing diva (she looks very operatic to me) set against the gridded lines of the ledger, with the bold pink center line cutting straight across her waist. And the erasures made