Ink Painting of Man in Partial Profile on Green Paper Clare Leighton Ship Buiding The patterns of her dress

The patterns of her dress and border around the rim are terrific too

Light wood slider: 8"x 4 5/8" x 3 1/8"

very moving

from top of head to end of peg is 5 1/8"

Ink Painting of Man in Partial Profile on Green Paper Clare Leighton Ship Buiding The patterns of her dressI am not quite sure why I find this drawing painting so satisfying, but I do, totally. It feels completely resolved, and rather like it always existed, effortlessly emerging at some point from this sheet of muted green paper, which, scuffed and smudged, feels like its been around forever too. I believe it is actually a portrait of the late artist and longtime art professor Leon Hovsepian of Worchester, MA, at whose estate sale I purchased it; perhaps