Wonderfully Awkward Still Life with Insect on Stem, House on Reverse, Henry Hinkel, 1913 Drawing , Lancaster NY carved head (And I've just learned that

(And I've just learned that San Roque was adopted as the patron saint of the pandemic

if one should be so lucky as to have a living relative born in 1931

on the back of the canvas

James Frederic Bone (1929-2015) a prolific and endlessly inventive Chicago artist

exquisitely crafted object that I find unbelievably beautiful and powerful

Wonderfully Awkward Still Life with Insect on Stem, House on Reverse, Henry Hinkel, 1913 Drawing , Lancaster NY carved head (And I've just learned thatOne of a handful today pulled from the already falling apart sketchbook of a young Henry Henkel of Lancaster, NY, who wrote his name many times all over it. I just love the wonkiness of this still life basket of fruit, looking as if the arrangement itself was composed by young Henry himself, without much of a mind to balance! And with this wonderful little purple bug (looking a bit like a sheep with antennae) marching toward the end of the stem. And